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1869. 






Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, 

By ALFRED F. KELLOGG, Secretary, 

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"It was resolved that each member of the Class be requested to transmit to the 
Secretary, oyicc in five years, a letter giving a short account of his own history during 
the interval, together with important information respecting other members of the 
Class, with which he may be acquainted ; and that the Secretary be instructed to pre- 
pare for publication, a digest of the information obtained, and to transmit a copy to 
each member of the Class — the expense thereof to be defrayed by an assessment." — 
Triermial. 1862. 



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1. .Beekman. 

2. Beeaelet. 

3. Claek. 

4. Olevelajs'd. 

5. Cole. 

6. OOLWELL. 

7. CONDIT. 

8. Conovee. 

9. COENELL. 

10. Ceai&. 

11. Davis. 
13. DicESOs. 

13. DoUGAL. 

14. Edgae. 

15. Feieeson.* 

16. Gl.OYEE. 

17. goldthwaite.* 

18. Geat. 

19. Hodge. 

20. Hodgson. 

31. HoLDEsr. 

32. Humpheets. 
S3. Janviee. 

34. Kellogg. 

35. Kennedy. 

36. Kenton. 

37. Ketcham. 
28. Lloyd.* 
39. Lyon, A. 

30. Lyon, T. 

31. McAtee. 
S2. MgKaig. 

33. Magie. 

34. Mhoon. 

35. Moeeis. 

36. Olipuant. 

37. Pollock.* 

38. Eeese. 

39. eobinson.* 

40. EODNET. 

41. EuSSELL. 

43. Stump. 

43. Sykes. 

44. Taeleton.* 

45. Van Syckel. 



46. Waed. 

47. Watson, 

48. "Webstee.* 

49. Weidman. 

50. Williams. 

51. Woodbeidge. 
53. Weight. 

53. Yeeger. 

54. Class-Boy. 

55. Zabeiskie.* 

56. Alexandee. * 

57. Andeeson.* 

58. Aechee. 

59. Black. 

60. Beady. 

61. OLABAUGn. 
63, OOSSITT.* 

63. COUETS.* 

64. Geeen. 

65. Latham. 

66. LtTMPKIN. 

67. Mills.* 

68. Mitchell, 

69. MooEE, A,* 

70. MooEE, D, 

71. Muse.* 

72. Nelson. 

73. Eaines, 

74. Eibble. 

75. Eobeetson.* 

76. Stoees.* 

77. TOMKINS, 

78. White. 

79. WOOLLEY. 

80. WOEEALL. 

81. Zabeiskie, W. 



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83. Peesident Maclean. 

84. Peofessoe Gigee.* 

85. Peofessoe Hope.* 

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PEESIDENT : 

HUGH L. COLE. 

SECEETAEY : 

ALFRED H. KELLOGG. 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE : 

ALFRED H. KELLOGG, DAYID MAGIE, 

JAMES NEWTON DICKSON, GEORGE GRAY, 
THEODORIO CECIL LYOK 



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As stated on the title-page, the present publication is intended for 
" private circulation." It is a Glass Record, prepared in accordance with 
its own command and from this standpoint therefore to be judged. It is 
intended to be a Repertory of facts and events which, of necessity, will 
interest few besides themselves and their immediate relatives and friends. 

Very much labor has been expended to make it both complete and reli- 
able. 

Much of the interest in such a publication, depends on what to outsiders 
might appear very jr>eTsonal sketches. But scarcely any thing of that de- 
scription will be found in this Record, that has not been inserted by per- 
mission. The feeling of the compiler is shared by most if not all, that we 
are a Class Brotherhood- — members as it were of a common family, sharers 
in each other's joys and sorrows. Sentiments and expressions of feeling 
that are as sacred as personal, may hence with propriety, be incorporated. 

It has been a labor of love to the compiler, and his reward will be suf- 
ficient, if the work shall tend to unite us as a Class in stronger bonds to 
one another, and to the dear old College which we all love, 



3, 01)011 §XB\ox]) rjf tl)e Ollass in College, 



The class of 1859 commenced its career as a class in August, 1855. 
It met for the first time on the first Thursday of that month, in the Fresh 
recitation room, then in the basement of the old Library building, to receive 
orders from Tutor Cameron. For the first three weeks it numbered but 
seventeen, but by the end of the year it had increased to a class of twenty- 
nine, viz. : Anderson of Md., Archer of Pa., Beekman of N. J., Cla- 
BAUGH of Md., Clark of N. Y., Condit of N. Y., Cossitt of Tenn., Frier- 
son of La., Hodge of N. J., Hodgson of Va., Kellogg of P%, Kenton 
of Conn., Latham of Tenn., Lumpkin of Tenn., McKaig of Md., Mills of 
N. Y., Mitchell of Pa., Moore of Ark., Morris of N. J., Muse of La., 
Pollock of Pa., Reese of Md., Storrs of Ala., Watson of Pa., Weidman 
of Pa., WooDBRiDGE of Cal., WooLLEY of Ky., Worrall of Pa. and 
Wright of N. Y. 

We had three recitations every secular day except Saturday, when we 
had but one. We had Greek on Mondays and Tuesdays (except before 
breakfast on Tuesdays when we had " Coleman's Biblical Geograj)hy ") ; 
Mathematics on Wednesdays and Thursdays (except the afternoon recita- 
tion when we had Latin) and Latin the rest of the time. On Sundays we 
had a Biblical recitation at two p. m. in connection with the Junior class 
— we then had a taste of the " Museum." 

Our instructors were : (1) The President, Dr. Maclean, in Biblical 
Geography. (2) Dr. Atwater, in Bible. (3) Mr. J. S. Simonton, in 
Hackley's Algebra and the 1st book of Euclid. (4) Mr. H. M. Baird, in 
Anabasis and Memorabilia — also, Greek Prose Composition and St. John's 
Gospel. (5) Mr. H. C. Cameron, in Livy, the Odes of Horace and Latin 
Prose Composition. 

Hodge was called on to make the first recitation. We were a class 
small in numbers, but thoroughly united in every thing; and it is the 
uniform testimony of every member, that it was one of the happiest years 
of our lives. 

Only a few events are recalled, however, as serving to vary the general 
routine. 

(1) Late in September, the customary horn spree became the occasion 
of a very serious collision between the students and the " snobs," resulting 
in the death of one of the latter. 

(2) There was the usual activity of the Hogi-Mogi association, though 
some of our members set their wits to work to foil its operations. Tv^'e 
may mention Kenyon's method, by removing the glass from his windows 



10 HISTORY IN COLLEGE, 

also Condit's, by jumping out of his window and effecting a most ams- 

terly retreat. 

(3) Many of the class will also remember the lecture they received 
from the President on the duty of always attending recitations — occasioned 
by our class " cut " on the 1st of x\pril 

(4) The " Memorabilia Sophomorum " was for the first time published 
in pamphlet form in our day ; though, as one classmate suggests, this is no 
matter for boasting. 

^ (5) The year was enlivened by " lectures " delivered in the winter by 
distinguished men froai abroad. Everett delivered his oration on Washing- 
ton. The credit of the undertaking was due to the class of 1856. 

(6) The most momentous event of the year to many of the class was 
the powerful religious interest during the second session. 



SOPHOMORE YEAE, 

At the beginning of the second year of its history, the class received 
quite an accession to its numbers — some thirty-one being matriculated, 
viz. : Black of Del., Brearley of N. J., Cole of N. C, Conovee of N. J., 
Cornell of N. J., Davis of Pa., Dicksok of Pa., Dougal of Pa., Edgar 
of N. Y., Glover of N. J., Goldthwaite of Ala., Green of N. J., HoL- 
DEN of N. Y., Humphreys of Md., Lloyd of N. J., Magie of N. Y., 
Mhoon of Ala., MooRE of N. C, Nelson of Md., Oliphant of N. J., 
Robertson of Md., Stump of Md., Sykes of N. Y., Tarleton of Ala., 
ToMKiNS of N. J., Ward of N. J., Webster of K' H., White of Pa., Yf il- 
LiAMS of CaL, A. Zabriskie of N. J. and W. Zabriskie of N. J. 

Four of the Freshmen however left us with the close of that year, viz. : 
Anderson, Archer, Latham and Mills, and thus at the end of the Sopho- 
more year we numbered fifty-six. 

We had the same number of recitations as in the Freshman year, 
though a different distribution of them. 

Our instructors were : (1) The President, on the Sabbath in the Bible 
(in connection with the Seniors) — also, on Friday afternoons, recitations in 
Hodge's " Way of Life." (2) Prof. Duf&eld, who took us through Euclid 
and Trigonometry. (3) Prof Giger, with whom we read portions of the 
Epistles and Satires of Horace — also some of Cicero's Tusculan Disputa- 
tions. He instructed us also in Latin Prose Composition and presided on 
Saturdays at our famous Declamations. (4) Prof. Cameron, we read with 
him some of the Iliad—Plato's apology of Socrates — Demosthenes' Philip- 
ics — the Book of the Acts of the Apostles. We were put through Greek 
Prosody, moreover, and were abundantly furnished with the synonyms oi 
the language. Our class have always believed in the wonderful copious- 
ness of the Greek tongue. (5) Mr. C. B. Clarke, who gave us a recitation 
. a week in Day's Bhetoric. 

The most prominent events recalled during tliis year were : 

(1) The secession from Clio Hall of quite a number of members, re- 
sulting from the unusually intense excitement attending the Junior orator 
elections. 

(2) The completion of the North College and the new Library Buildings. 

(3) The Class Rake — a publication which w^as very discreditable. 
There is nothing like confessing a fault. 



HISTORY EST COLLEGE. H 



JUNIOE YEAR. 

Twenty persons were enrolled among tis during this year, viz, : Alex- 
ander, of Ga., Brady of S. C, Cleveland of Ga., Colwell of Pa., Courts 
of N. C, Craig of Fla., Gray of Del.. Ja:nvier of Del, Kennedy of Pa.^ 
Ketciiam of N. J., A. Lyon of Miss., T. Lyon of Miss., McAtee of Md.', 
Raines of Texas, Kibble of N. J., Robinso^t of N. Y., Rodney of Del., 
Russell of N. Y., Van Syckel of N. J., Yerger of Miss. . At the same 
time, we lost, either by their leaving at end of Sophomore or during the 
Junior year, fourteen members, viz. : Clabaugii, Cossitt, Courts, Greeiq-, 
Mitchell, A. D. Moore, D.W. Moore, Muse, Nelson, Robertson, Storrs, 
White, Woolley and W. Zabriskie. Thus at the close of the year, our 
roll contained sixty-two names. 

During this year we were relieved of the early morning recitation. "We 
also began with the lecture system. The exercises were characterized with 
greater variety. This will appear from the following list. 

Our instructors were: (1) Dr. Maclean, (Evid. Christianity — Paley 
—Elocution). (2) L. H. x\twater, (Ment. Phil— Logic— Bible). (3) 
A. Guyot, (Geology). (4) S. Alexander, (Somatology). (5) M. B. 
Hope, (Trench). (6) J. T. Duffield, (Analyt. Geometry — Calculus). (7) 
G. M. Giger, (Terence— Tacitus). (8) J. C. Moffat, (Thueydides— Pro- 
metheus— Gr. Lit.). (9) W. A. Dod, (Architecture). (10) C. R. 
Clarke, (Essays). 

Only a few events are remembered as characterizing this year. 

(1) The Junior orators Avere elected amid much excitement. They 
were Goldthwaite, Lumpkin, Hodge, Robinson, Hodgson, Russell, 
Lloyd, Stump. 

(2) At the close of the year, the class elected Editors of the Nassau 
Literary Magazine for the first half of the Senior year, viz. : Ketcham, 
Reese, Woodbridge and McAtee. 

(3) Another season of decided religious interest began in the second 
session and continued to the close. 

(4) We were called upon to mourn the loss by a sad accident of one of 
our most beloved and promising members — Henry Kirke White Muse, 
of La. A detailed account of this event will be found in the Record 
proper, under his name, and a sketch of his character among the " Memo- 
rials." 

senior year. 

On coming together in August, 1858, we learned of the death of Courts, 
who had, however, been with us but about one-half of the Junior year. 
[See under his name in the ' Record '] We found, also, that some seven 
members had withdrawn from the institution from various causes, viz. : 
Alexander, Black, Lumpkin, Raines, Ribble, Tomkins and Wokrall. 
Brady remained with the class until very near the close of the year, but 
from some unexplained cause did not graduate. Accordingly, we were left 
a graduating class of only 54. [The Secretary will add as a coincidence, 
that the class of 1869, just graduated, contained likewise only 51 meuj. 

The method of instruction adopted in this year was in great measure 
by lectures. Latin entirely disappeared from the curriculum and two re- 
citations only were i-equired in Greek. 

Our instructors were: (1) John Maclean, (Butler's Analogy and 



12 HISTOEY IN COLLEGE. 

Bible). (2) S. Alexander, (Nat. Phil, and Ast.) (3) M. B. Hope, (Po- 
lit. Economy — Rhetoric). (4) A. Gruyot, (Physical Geography). (5) J. 
C. Moffat, (Ars Poetica.— Paul's Epist,) (6) L. H. Atwater, (Moral 
Philosophy). (7) J. S. Schanck, (Chemistry— Anatomy). 

Kenyon made the last recitation (Bible). 

Almost at the beginning of this year the country was electrified by the 
apparent success in laying the first Atlantic cable — demonstrating, at least, 
its possibility. Such an event — in view of Princeton's place in this field 
of research through Prof. Henry, formerly of the College— the students 
felt demanded a special celebration. 

In Ketcham's Magazine for September, there is an elaborate account 
of the proceedings, from which we make the following extract : — 

An enthusiastic meeting of the students for the purpose of a grand celebration in 
honor of the successful laying of the Atlantic cable, was held in the college chapel, 
Kenton in the chair. After appropriate remarks, a Committee of 10 was appointed 
(four from the Seniors, three from the Juniors, two from the Sophs and one from the 
Freshmen), to make arrangements for the celebration. Lloyd, Stump, Robinson and 
T. Lyon, were the Seniors on the Committee. At an early hour on the evening of Aug. 
19th, the campus and the fine "North" building were brilliantly illuminated and a pro- 
cession formed of the students, who after saluting the President, the Professors and the 
dignitaries of the town at their residences, returned to the front door of the new Li- 
brary. A large number of banners were carried in the procession upon which were 
inscribed many appropriate devices — such as, " The Birth-place of the American Tele- 
graph," "Honor to whom honor — Joseph Henry." President Maclean opened the 
exercises with a brief allusion to the Providence of God in all the triumphs of science 
and ended with a prayer, during which the strictest silence was maintained. Dr. 
Stephen Alexander was then introduced, and for a period of half an hour completely 
electrified his hearers. Interesting and instructive addresses were also made by Drs. 
Atwater and Moffat and by Professors Giger and Dupfield. 

An interesting account of the affair is given in a letter signed " Sine " 
printed in the N. Y. Express, Aug. 20, 1858. No new facts are therein 
recorded. It speaks of the celebration as "never having been equalled in 
Princeton, unless perhaps when Lafayette passed through (P) " and says that 
" the enthusiastic audience separated . . . with hearty cheers for the an- 
nexation of England (I!) " 

If previous years were characterized by but few events, our Senior 
year may be said to have been particularly full of lively interest. Scarcely 
had the interest awakened by the cable celebration abated, when the whole 
college was thrown into the intensest excitement by an attempt on the part 
of sundry low characters in the village to remove the smaller cannon which 
the class of 1859 had just planted in the college campus. 

The affair can be best explained by extracts from a letter in the N. Y. 
Express signed "Cosine" [Russell — K] and dated Sept. 21, 1858. 
" Cosine " says : 

. . . There is no reason to discredit the belief that the cannon has come to us from 
the days of the Revolution. . , . Formerly, this venerable piece of ordnance was in 
possession of the college and stood within the college grounds. . . . The first record of 
the cannon is as on the college grounds. Previously to the present arrangement of 
the sessions, the 4th of July came during term time and the cannon was invariably 
brought into service by the students in their annual celebrations. The piece was fre- 
quently loaned to the towns-people who were always careful to return it. After a 
while, however, the iron relic was found to have been honey-combed, and, with the 
usual ingratitude to faithful public servants, it was thrown aside and lay for a year, in 
inglorious repose, in front of the campus. When the opposite side of the street was 
flagged a few years ago, the contractor, looking about for a corner-piece to ornament 
the street and his own work at the same time, seized the cannon and posted it at. the 



HISTOEY IN COLLEGE, 13 

corner of Nassau and Withcrspoon Streets. There had it reinuined but for a conjunc- 
tion of circumstances we will proceed to relate. 

He then refers to the enthusiasm aroused by the cable celebration as 
stimulating our class to further enterprise, &c., &c., and proceeds : 

The proposition, therefore, to take the old cannon and return it to its original 
ground — based as the plan was, on a right at once allodial and feudal — met with unan- 
imous favor in the class. Accordingly one night last week, a spartan corps of Seniors 
removed the ancient relic to the southern campus, placing it in a line with the old 
"peacemaker." . . . This proceeding was regarded by a certain band of " townies" . 
. as high-handed and insulting, and furthermore, as requiring reparation. The respect- 
able portion of the townsfolk repudiate the action of this lawless baud. A report soon 
spread that an attempt would be made to recapture the cannon. The " Nassaus " were 
determined that the trophy should remain where it rightly belonged. . . . Provision 
Avas therefore made against any attack by the "snobs" (as the class of "townies" to 
which we allude are called). The mythical Martial deity was studied otherwise than 
as the Professor would direct. Such was the position of affairs, when early in the evening 
of last Saturday, a party of the "snobs" attacked one of the rooms in the old Refectory 
(standing then just outside the east gate of the campus, but since removed) by throwing 
stones and other missiles at the windows. The occupant of the room [IIoldex — K] 
gave chase. The rascals as they fled, hurled a large stone at their pursuer, striking him 

severely in the breast This cowardly assault at once aroused intense excitement 

among the students. It gave color to the report that an attempt would be made to 
retake the caimon. It was inferred from this and other things, that an attempt would 
be made with knives and pistols. Knots of excited " snobs " and crowds of still more 
excited students were to be seen all along the street, armed to the teeth, %The Presi- 
dent of the College and Professor Duffleld went among the " snobs " and harangued 
them. The cannon belonged to the College, and the attack of the " snobs " had so ex- 
cited the students, that nothing could prevail on them to go to their rooms. The Mayor 
of Princeton also harangued the "snobs," and by threatening to treat them as a mob, 
should they attempt to enter the College campus, he finally dissuaded them from their 
rash design. The students lay on their arms all that night, though happily the antici- 
pated difficulties were prevented. Quiet has returned, yet the feeling still runs high. 
Measures have been taken to bring to justice the cowardly assailants who attacked the 
room in the Refectory — the inhabitants in the town fully concurring in condemnation 
of the act. 

Ketcham thus editorially comments on the event ia the September 
number of the Magazine. 

We cannot resign our chair without first mentioning the fact .... of the midnight 
crusade of a few choice spirits to rescue from oblivion the " little cannon," which for 28 

years has stood neglected, &c The affair was conducted in a very gentlemanly 

manner, meeting not only with the approbation of the students, but also with the silent; 
concurrence of our Instructors. If we cannot pronounce it morally right or morally 
wrong, we may yet call it "intrinsically indifferent." This cannon was the first to an- 
nounce in Princeton the triumph of the American arms in the war of 1812 We 

trust that the honor of " Nassau" will feel itself called upon to preserve inviolate this 
relic of our Revolution, even though it may not be in exact accordance with the college 
'■'■canons " to deprive our Preceptors of their wonted amount of sleep. 

It may be added here that Ketciiam states that our Class was stimu- 
lated to the undertaking, by a spirited account -which members of the Class 
of 1839 had given in the Alurani meeting at the previous commencement, 
of the manner in which their Class had secured and fixed in position the 
" peacemaker " which has so long ornamented the campus. 

It may be also added as an interesting item, that the removal of the 
smaller gun by our Class was effected notwithstanding a drenching rain 
and an almost entire lack of suitable implements. The removal was in- 
deed accomplished only by the main streugth of the participants (14 in 



1^ HISTORY IN COLLEGE. 

cumber), aud it is now admitted that had it not been for Tarleton's almost 
superhuman energy and herculean strength, the enterprise must have failed. 

As it is, the cannon now stands in the campus — a trophy of the Class of 
1859. [For an account of the " Dedication" of the gun, see the narrative 
of our Decennial Meeting.] _p • i i , 

Another proof of the enterprise of our class was furnished this year in 
the erection of a Gymnasium. As this feature in the institution is just 
now receiving such prominent attention, we feel that our efforts in this di- 
rection must not pass unnoticed. We had among us two expert gymnasts, 
Weight (familiarly known as " Rectus ") and A. Lyon (better known as 
" Guss"). With commendable zeal aud energy, they succeeded in raising 
enough money to erect and partially fit up a very respectable frame build- 
ing (on the site of the handsome stone structure now in course of erection) 
which is thus noticed among the " Improvements during the year " by the 
reporter of the Commencement in the A^. Y. Times : 

Since last Commencement a Gymnasium has been fitted up on the College grounds, 
which should be a scourcc of decided advantage to the students. It is 30 feet by 70, 
and though its apparatus is not yet complete, there is enough to loosen joints and 
strengthen limbs stiffened and crooked with study. 

We may add that it cost in all about $800, and that both Professors 
and students contributed to the fund. 

During the year, a short " History of the College " in pamphlet form, 
prepared by Edgar, was published, and extensively circulated in and out 
of the college. It was creditable not only to the literary character of the 
class, but also for its devotion to the interests of the Institution. 

The first session of the year was further enlivened by the Saturday 
morning Senior speaking from Nov. 20 to Dec. 11. The music on these 
occasions was of college manufacture and a very creditable specimen of 
Home Industry. 

At the close of this session, four Magazine Editors were elected for the 
second session. Morris, Clark, Davis and T. Lyox were chosen. The 
Election of Speakers for Class Day resulted in the choice of Reese for Ora- 
tor and HoLDEN for Poet. 

The second session was short and comparatively uneventful. We 
were engaged in preparations for the Senior final examination, then a 
formidable aff"air, going over pretty near all of the college studies from the 
beginning. 

At length, examination was over and our Class Day arrived. The 
President's Baccalaureate discourse was the first event of our closing ex- 
ercises. We again prefer, however, to allow "Cosine" to give the ac- 
count of the day. He says : 

A large audience filled the college chapel on Sunday, May 15th, to hear Dr. M.'s 
Baccalaureate- The President's theme was " Self-culture " — the text, 1 Cor. ix. 25. 
The sermon was au able exposition of the importance to success of the truth taught in 
the text, and was full of fervor. Few who heard it were unmoved, and the solemn ex- 
hortation at the close to the members of the Senior class made a deep impression. It is 
the general remark that Dr. M.'s address this year surpassed any of his previous Bacca- 
laureates, both in appropriateness and style. 

The closing exercises of the Class Day were held in the chapel on Monday evening 
— the building being filled to its utmost capacity with visitors and students. Large 
numbers of ladies were present — a significant fact and of good omen to the class, at 
whoso invitation they came. The chapel was brilliantly illuminated, and the excitement 
and ardor of the time raised enthusiasm to the highest pitch. 



HISTORY IN COLLEGE, 16 

At 8 o'clock, the Orator and Poet entered the chapel amid long and renewed cheers 
froni the students. The Divine blessing having been invoked by the President, the 
Poet of the class — Mr. Edgar Holden — was introduced and received with loud applause. 
Is^or was expectation disappointed. Mr. H.'s poem was of high order. His verses were 
concinnous and his ideas worthy of the subject. In satirizing the follies of the day 
falsely styled successes, the speaker made some telling hits — provoking cheers even 
from those most sharply cut. The delivery was very fine — his gestures rhythmic and 
his manner easy and possessed. 

The grand, old, stirring, student's song "Gaudeamus " was next sung by the choir, and 
the various allusions enthusiastically cheered. 

The Orator of the evening — .Mr. James W. Reese — then came forward, greeted by 
his fellow-students with the unrestrained tribute of their admiration and confidence. 
His theme was " The Scholar's Mission " and nobly he handled it. In style chaste and 
refined, the oration gave abundant evidence of the writer's scholarly culture. Philo- 
sophic and classic, it was nevertheless enough practical to demand the careful attention 
of every hearer — as bearing on the great wants of American society. The speaker's 
idea may be well apprehended from the following terse and teeming sentence : "The 
revolutions of society are phenomena which are to be referred to the scholar as to their 
law," .... The scene was vei'y impressive, when at the close, as the little band of 54 
stood together probably for the last time all of them on earth, the speaker bade adieu to 
his classmates with the hope that some of their number at least might meet again in 
the future to grasp each other's hands and in heartfelt earnestness ask, " What cheer, 
brothers, what cheer?" 

The parting Ode — composed by Edgar — was then sung, the Class standing — and 
then the assemblage was dismissed with the Benediction. 

The Class afterwardsmet for a few minutes at the President's mansion, where a hymn 
was sung, " Blest be the tie that binds," and a last prayer offered for Divine strength to 
guide the members all safely through life to the Christian's home. The Pre^ient over-, 
powered with emotion, bade each member of the Class "good-bye" and another band 
went forth from old Nassau's halls, strong in the armor of their Alma Mater. 

The Class lield a business meeting for permanent organization, on the 
afternoon of Class Day [see " Miniites of Class-Meetings"]. 

The President gave the Class a supper on the same evening, after the 
devotional exercises above referred to, which was numerously attended by 
a brilliant assemblage of kind friends from Princeton and abroad. 

It was six weeks from Class Day to Commencement Day, and many of 
the Class, especially our Southern members, some of whom laad never been 
home since coming to College, hastened away, and did not return to the 
Commencement. 

Thirty-nine members received appointments for orations — an unusually 
large proportion of a class — showing that the general scholarship, as tested 
by the system then in operation, was very creditable. 

Kellogg received the Latin Salutatory, Colwell the English Saluta- 
tory, Russell the Valedictory, Ketcham the Philosophical Oration and 
E.EESE the Classical Oration. 

The Commencement was a pleasant one; and thus the Class of 1859 
passed into history. 



illiuutc0 of €las5-illeettng0. 



Class-meeting No. I. 

Class-meeting No. I. was held on Class Day, May 16, 1859, in tlie 
Senior room, Cole in the chair. 

(1) On motion, it was resolved to effect a permanent Class organiza- 
tion, by an election of the proper officers. Accordingly, Cole was elected 
Class President and Hodge, Class Secretary. 

(2) On motion, it was resolved to institute a " Class Cup " to be given 
at our Triennial meeting to the member of the graduating Class who shall 
have complied with the customary conditions. 

Hodge, Davis and Hodgson, were appointed a committee to collect 
funds for this object. 

(3) On motion, Webster. Dickson", and Weight were appointed a 
Committee to request a copy of the Baccalaureate Sermon delivered May 
15th, for publication. 

(4) On motion, it was resolved to hold a meeting of the Class during 
Commencement week. 

Adjourned. 

Hodge, Secretary. 

Class-meeting No. II. 

Class-meeting No. II. was held on Commencement Day, June 28, 1859, 
in the Sophomore room. Cole in the chair. 

(1) On motion, it was resolved, to hold a Triennial meeting during the 
Commencement week of 1862. 

(2) On motion, it was resolved, That our Class Secretary is hereby 
empowered to act as" he thinks best, in reference to the appointment of the 
Master Orator. 

(3) On motion, it was resolved, That the Class Secretary provide a 
suitable register or Class Book, wherein shall be recorded the name, date 
of birth, place of birth, occupation, with whatever of interest or importance 
may be deemed desirable : also, marriage, children born, offices of ti-ust 
and honor received, changes of residence, &c., and, that on the death of 
the last surviving member of the Class, the book be given to the College, 
to be kept forever in the College archives. 

Adjourned. 

Hodge, Secretary. 

Class-meeting No. III. (Special.) 
Class-meeting No. III. was held in the Princeton Seminary, April 2, 



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1862. In the absence of the President, Kenyon was called to the 
Chair. 

The Secretary stated that he had called this meeting for consultation 
as to the best method of celebrating our Triennial. There were present, 
viz. : CoNDiT, Edgar, Hodge, Kellogg, Kenyon, McAtee, Robinson, 
Russell and Webster. 

On motion, a Committee of Arrangements, consisting of five, viz. : 
McAtee, Kenyon, Condit, Russell and Kellogg, was appointed to advise 
with the Secretary in reference to the subject. 

Adjourned. 

Hodge, Secretary. 



Class-meeting No. IV, (Triennial.) 

The Class of 1859 held their regular Triennial meeting in Princeton, 
at the house of Anthony Simmons, on Tuesday, June 24, 1862. In the 
absence of the President, the Secretary called the meeting to order and 
Lloyd was appointed chairman. 

The following members were present, viz. : Beekman, Colwell, 
Condit, Davis, G-lover, Hodge, Janvier, Kellogg, Kenyon, Lloyd, 
McAtee, Morris, Pollock, Russell, Stcmp, Van Syckel and Watson. 

The following resolutions were adopted. 

(1) In view of the fact that no application had been made i(# the " Class 
Cup," it was resolved that the custom be abolished and the money^collect- 
ed appropriated to Class expenses. 

(2) It was resolved that each member of the Class be requested to 
transmit to the Secretary, once in five years, a letter giving a short account 
of his own history during the interval, together with important informa- 
tion respecting other members of the Class, with which he may be ac- 
quainted ; and that the Secretary be instructed to prepare for publication 
a digest of the information obtained and to transmit a copy to each member 
of the Class, the expense thereof to be defrayed by an assessment. 

(3) It was resolved that the Secretary be instructed to issue the first 
Digest in 1864, five years from graduation. 

(4) Hodge having presented his resignation of the office of Class Sec- 
retary with his reasons therefor, on motion, it was resolved that the resig- 
nation be accepted. 

(5) On motion of Kenyon, it was resolved that the thanks of the Class 
be presented to the retiring Secretary, for the able manner in which he 
has discharged his duties. 

(6) On motion of Colwell, Kellogg was appointed to succeed Hodge 
as Class Secretary. 

(7) It was resolved to hold our first decennial Class meeting (according 
to custom,) during the Commencement week of 1869. 

(8) Resolved, That the Class of '59 have heard with sorrow of the 
decease of Otis Benjamin Webster, a member of this Class ; and while 
we mourn the dispensation of Providence— the blighting of so much of hope 
and promise, we rejoice in the assurance that, though death came upon him 
unawares, it found him with his lamp trimmed and burning. 

Resolved, That as Classmates, we will ever cherish the memory of his 
unassuming manner — his honesty and purity of heart— his integrity, sin- 
cerity and frankness. 

Resolved, That, in his death, not only does our Class lose a worthy 
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18 MINUTES OF MEETINGS, 

and esteemed member, but the Clmrch is deprived of an earnest, devoted 
laborer. 

Kesolved, That we extend to the family of the deceased our heartfelt 
sympathy — and that a copy of these resolutions be sent to his mother and 
sister. 

Adjourned. 

Hodge, Secretary. 



Class-meeting No. V. (Special.) 

A meeting of such members of the Class as could be gathered was held 
at the call of the Secretary, in Jersey City, N. J., May 28, 1864. In 
the absence of the President^ Russell Avas called to the chair. There 
were present, Kellogg, Kenyon, Ketciiam, Magie, Morris and Russell. 

The Secretary stated that he had called the meeting to take action in 
view of the death of Col. Abram Zabriskie. 

On motion, it was resolved that the Secretary be instructed to inform 
the family of our deceased classmate, of our high appreciation of the char- 
acter of Col. Zabriskie, of our pride in observing the important and dis- 
tinguished services he has rendered the nation and of the profound sorrow 
and regret with which the class has heard the sad intelligence of his de- 
cease ; also, to extend to them our warmest sympathy in their bereavement. 

On motion, it was resolved that the Class will attend the funeral of 
CoL. Zabriskie, in a body. 

Adjourned. 

Kellogg, Secretary, 



Class-meeting No. YI. (Special.) 

A meeting of the Class was called by the Secretary at the request of 
several members and held during the Commencement week, in the Fresh- 
man room, June 28, 1865, at 9^ o'clock a.m. 

In the absence of the President, the Secretary called the meeting to 
order and McAtee was appointed chairman. 

Eleven members of the Class answered to the roll, viz. : Brearley, 
CoNovER, Hodgson, Kellogg, Kennedy, Ketciiam, McAtee, McKaig, 
Morris, Russell, Williams, 

The following action was taken. 

(1) On motion, it was resolved to reconsider the action of the Triennial 
meeting whereby the " Class Cup " was abolished. 

(2) On motion, it was resolved that the time for awarding the " Class 
Cup" be extended to the Decennial meeting in 1869, and that the Secre- 
tary be clothed with discretionary powers in reference thereto. 

(3) On motion, it was resolved that the Secretary be authorized to 
initiate proceedings looking to the Foundation by the Class of 1859 of a 
Class prize, the nature of which to be determined at subsequent meeting. 

(4) On motion, it was resolved that in the judgment of this meeting the 
said Prize ought to be based on a Foundation of not less than $1000. 

(5) On motion, it was resolved that it would be an appropriate close 
of the ten years' history of the Class, if the said Prize can be founded by 
the time of the Decennial meeting. 

(6) On motion, it was resolved that the Secretary be instructed to 



MINUTES OF MEETINGS. 19 

open a subscription list for this purpose at once, and be clothed with full 
power to act in the matter. 

Adjourned. 

Kellogg, Secretary. 



Class-meeting, No. VII. (Special.) 

In response to the call of the Secretary through Circular No. XZ, a 
meeting of the Class was held in Princeton on Tuesday, June 23, 1868, at 
2 P.M., in the Senior room. 

In the absence of the President, the Secretary called the meeting to 
order, and Goldthwaite was appointed chairman. 

Fourteen members of the Class were present, viz. : Beekman, Col- 
well, Davis, Dickson, Goldthwaite, Hodge, Kellogg, Ketcham, Magie, 
Morris, Oliphant, Russell, Stump, and Williams. 

(1) The special business for which the Chiss had been convened was 
introduced by a report from the Secretary, with regard to the projected 
Class Prize ; whereupon, on motion, a Committee of Three (Russell, Col- 
W'ELL, and the Secretary) was appointed, to report what additional action 
is needed to consummate the plan of a Class Prize. 

(2) A Cominittee of Three (Hodge, Stump, and the Secretary) was 
appointed to report Resolutions expressive of the feelings of ^he Chiss in 
view of the retirement of Dr. Maclean, and the acceptance of the Presi- 
dency of the College by Dr. McCosii. 

The Class then" on motion, took a recess until Wednesday morning at 

11 A.M. 

On re-assembling on Wednesday, the following action was taken : 

I. The first business was the report of the Committee on the two Pres- 
idents, who presented the following resolutions, which were adopted : 

Resolved, ( t) That the Class of 1859 desires to express the great satis- 
faction with which it has heard of Dr. McCosh's acceptance of the Presi- 
dency of Nassau Hall. 

Resolved, (2) That while this Class gladly welcomes Dr. McCasH, as a 
successor every way worthy of those who have preceded him in his respon- 
sible office, and while it looks to the future of the dear old College with 
confident expectations of an increased prosperity, it desires also to put on 
record its unabated and affectionate regard for Dr. Maclean, the retiring 
President, whose disinterested Idndness, almost paternal anxiety, piety and 
fidelity, this Class desires ever to honor. 

Resolved, (3) That this Class will attend the inauguration of Dr. Mc- 
Cosii, and appoint a Committee to give efl:ect to this resolution. 

Resolved, (4) That the Secretary be instructed to transmit a copy oi 
these resolutions to Dr. Maclean, also to Dr. JlcCosii and to the Secre- 
tary of the Board of Trustees. 

On motion, it was resolved that the Committee on the two Presidents 
be appointed to act as the Committee called for by the third resolution. 

II. The Committee on the Prize Foundation made its report through 
Russell, its Chairman, which report was accepted, and, after amendment, 
was adopted. 

The report was as to what additional action was needed to consummate 
our Prize Plan, and consisted of six resolutions, viz. : 

(1) Resolved, That the alject of the projected " Foundation " shall be 



20 MINUTES OF MEETINGS. 

to furnisli a basis for an Annual Prize, to be awarded to the best ESSAY- 
IST, under such rules and conditions as may hereafter be determined. 

(2) Resolved, That the Foundation for the Class of 1859 Prize Essay 
be at least $2,000 ; and that the Class be earnestly recommended to make 
such liberal subscriptions thereto, as that even more than that sura may 
be secured. 

(3) Resolved, That the following conditions and restrictions be attached 
to this Foundation, to wit : 

1. The style of the Trust shall be " The Class of 1859 Prize Essay 
Foundation." 

2. The Prize shall be awarded to the member of the Senior Class who 
shall be adjudged to be the best Essayist, in the manner and under such 
regulations and conditions as are hereinafter unfolded. 

3. The subject of the Prize Essay shall be selected by the Professor of 
Belles Lettrcs for the time being, or, in case of a vacancy in the Chair, by 
the Faculty of the College, and shall be publicly announced not later than 
the end of the first College session of the senior year. 

4. The Prize shall be adjudicated and awarded by a Committee to be 
known as "The Committee on the Class of 1859 Prize Essay.''' 

5. " The Committee on the Class of 1859 Prize Essay " shall consist, 
in the first instauxce, of three members of the Class of 1859, the Secretary 
of the said Class being a member ex officio and Chairman — the said Com- 
mittee being vested with power to fill vacancies that may occur from death or 
otherwise : Provided. That such vacancies shall be filled, in the first in- 
stance, by the selection of members of the Class of 1859, as long as such 
may be available, and thereafter by a selection from the Alumni of the 
College other than College officers. 

6. The Prize Essay shall be publicly read by the Essayist during the 
exercises of the Annunl Commencement. 

7. A list of " The Class of 185-9 Prize Essayists " from the beginning, 
shall be published in the Triennial Catalogue of the College. 

8. A copy of the Prize Essay, fairly written on paper of uniform size 
and uniformly bound, lettered and numbered, under the direction of the 
College Librarian, shall be preserved in the College Library. 

9. " The Committee on the Class of 1859 Prize Essay " shall have 
power to make such regulations in carrying out their duties as may be 
deemed expedient. 

10. Whatever necessary expenses shall be incurred in the administra- 
tion of this Trust, shall be first paid out of the income of the Foundation. 

11. These conditions and restrictions may be amended or revised by 
and with the consent of the Board of Trustees of the College : Provided, 
That no such amendment or revision be made until after one year's propo- 
sal of the same. 

(4.) Resolved, That a Committee of Three be appointed to confer with 
the Board of Trustees of the College, as to its acceptance of the foregoing 
Plan of the Foundation, with its conditions and restrictions; and that said 
Committee be further charged with the duty of arranging for a formal pre- 
sentation of this Trust to the College on Commencement Day, 1869. 

(5.) Resolved, That the Secretary be authorized to collect the amount 
of all subscriptions before the 1st day of January, 1869, and to hold the 
same subject to the final action of the Class at the Decennial meeting. 

(6.) Resolved, That the Board of Trustees of the College be requested 
to transfer to "the Class of 1859 Prize Essay Foundation," the sum of 



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already paid toward a Class Scholarship, (as per I'eceits dated Octo- 
ber 15, 1864, and June 13, 1865,) so soon as the remaining amount of the 
said Foundation shall have been received by the Treasurer. 

The Chairman appointed Russell, Colwell, and the Secretary, as the 
" Committee of Conference " with the Board of Trustees. 

III. On motion, it was 

Resolved, That a Committee of Three be appointed in connection with 
the Secretary, to make arrangements for our Decennial Meeting in '69. 
Magie, Dickson, and Olipiiant were appointed on this Committee. 

IV. On motion, the selection of the " Class Cup " was left to the 
" Committee of Arrangements " for the Decennial. 

V. On motion, the Secretary was instructed to correspond with the 
non-graduate members of this Class, with the view of securing their coope- 
ration with us in all Class movements, and to treat them in all respects as 
Classmates. 

VI. On motion, " The Committee of Arrangements for the Decennial " 
was instructed to have the Class of 1859 cannon properly fixed in position, 
painted and branded " 1859." 

Adjourned. 

Kellogg, Secretary. 



Class-meeting, No. VIII. (Decennial.) 

The Class assembled, in accordance with the order of the Committee of 
Arrangements, in the Museum, on Tuesday, June 29th, 1869, at 10 a.m. 

The meeting was called to order by Cole, the Class President, and was 
opened with prayer by Hodge. On calling the roll, the following twenty- 
one classmates answered to their names, viz. : Cole, Colwell, Coxover, 
Davis, Dickson, Glover, Green, Hodge, Kellogg, Kennedy, Ketcham, 
A. Lyon, T. Lyon, McKaig, Magie, Morris, Reese, Stump, Watson, 
Weidman, Williams. 

The following action was taken. 

(1) At the request of the Secretary, Magie was appointed to act as 
clerk of the Decennial meeting. 

(2) On motion, it was resolved that the reading of the minutes of the 
last meeting be omitted. 

(3) It was then decided to hear reports from the Committees appointed 
at the last meeting. 

The " Committee of Arrangements " made a verbal report, presenting, 
as the result of their labors, a printed " Order of Exercises." 
The report was accepted and adopted. 

(4) The " Committee of Conference " with the Board of Trustees, in 
relation to the Prize Foundation, made a written report, closing by recom- 
mending the adoption of the following resolution, viz. : 

Resolved, That the Secretary be authorized, in the name of the Class 
of 1859, to convey to the Board of Trustees of the College of New Jersey, 
the sum of ^2,000, in trust for the establishment of a Prize Foundation, 
under the following conditions, to wit : 

I. The style of the Trust shall be—" The Class of 1859 Prize Founda- 
tion." 

IL The Prize shall be publicly awarded to the member of the Senior 
Class who shall be adjudged to be worthy thereof, after an examination in 



22 MINUTES OF MEETINGS. 

English Literature and Essay Writing, conducted in the manner and under 
such regulations as shall be hereafter adopted by the Board of Trustees. 

III. A list of all who have received the Prize shall be published in the 
Triennial Catalogues of the College, and the regulations adopted for the 
government of the Prize in the several Annual Catalogues. 

The Committee offered this resolution as a substitute for the Plan of 
the Class Prize, as adopted at the Class meeting in June, 1868. 

The Committee's report was accepted. 

On motion, it was resolved that the action of last year, as regards the 
Plan of the Class Prize, be reconsidered. Whereupon, it was resolved, on 
Hodge's motion, to adopt the resolution presented by the Committee in 
their report. 

(.5) The Secretaey then read a report on the subscriptions and moneys 
received for the Prize, which showed a deficit. 

After some discussion as to the best means of raising the balance, it 
was decided to lay the subject on the table until Wednesday. 

(6) On motion of Kennedy, it was resolved that an assessment of $10 
be made on each available member of the Class, to defray expenses of this 
Decennial and other general expenses. 

(7) On motion, Ketcham was appointed to read the Historical recital 
at the dedication of the Class Cannon, and the Seceetary to read Weight's 
Poem, in his absence. 

(8) On motion, Dickson, Magie and McKaig were appointed usher 
for the " Cup Presentation " Reception in the evening. 

(9) On motion, the Class took a recess until 6 p.m., then to engage in the 
exercises of the " Cannon Dedication," according to the order prescribed 
by the " Committee of Arrangements." 

(10) On motion, a recess was taken after the " Dedication " exercises 
until 104^ P.M. 

The Class reassembled at 10:^- p.m., to attend to the Presentation of 
the " Class Cup." 

(11) The Secretary made a report on the matter of the " Cup " which 
was accepted and adopted ; whereupon, on Colwell's motion, it was re- 
solved that the " Class Cup " be presented to James Eucks Yerger, Jr., 
and that he be adopted as the " Class Boy " of '59. 

(12) On motion of Dickson, it was resolved that James Rucks Yer- 
ger, Senior, be appointed guardian for the Class Boy, and be entrusted with 
the sole management, education, and maintenance of the same. 

(13) On motion, a recess was taken until Wednesday at 10 a.m. 
On Wednesday, the Class reassembled in the Museum. 

(14) On motion, it was resolved that the President be appointed to 
represent the Class at the Alumni meeting. 

(15) On motion, the subject of the deficit in the Prize Fund was taken 
up and fully discussed. It was finally resolved to commit the subject into the 
hands of the Secretary, with discretionary power. 

(16) On motion of Kennedy, it was resolved that the Secretary be 
authorized to make a second assessment for Class expenses, if the $10 
already provided for be insufiicient, 

(17) On motion, it was resolved, that when the Class adjourns, it ad- 
journ to meet in Princeton during the Commencement week of 1879. 

(18) On motion, it was resolved to erect an " Executive Committee," to 
consist of five persons, to be appointed by the chair — the said Committee 
to be empowered to fill vacancies that may arise in its number and to act 



MINUTES OF MEETINGS. 23 

ill the name of the Class ad interim. The President appointed the Class 
Secretary, Magie, Dickson, Gtray, and T. Lyon, as the committee. 

(19) At the requestor the Secretart, Magie was appointed as an al- 
ternate, to act in case of vacancy arising from his resignation, disability, or 
death. 

(20) On motion, it wrs resolved that the Secretary be directed to con- 
vey to Dr. Schauk the grateful acknowledgment of the Class for the use of 
the Museum and for other services v/hich he has so kindly rendered during 
our Decennial Meeting ; and that the Secretary be authorized to have the 
Museum restored to order at the expense of the Class. 

(21) On motion of A. Lyon, the thanks of the Class were tendered to 
the Secretary, in token of its appreciation of his services. 

(22) On motion of Colwell, the Class expressed by resolution its 
gratification at the presence at this meeting of the Class Peesident. 

(23) On motion of Ketcham, the thanks of the Class were tendered to 
the " Committee of Arrangements." 

Adjourned. 

Kellogg, Secretary. 



®l)e lUtceimial illccting. 



Our Decennial meeting was held in the " Museum." The " Committee 
of Arrangements " had secured the exclusive use of the building, and neatly 
fitted it up for our accommodation. A transparency over the front entrance, 
dressed with the two society colors, pink and blue, and bearing the inscription 
" Headquarters Class of 1859," made the place a conspicuous one ; espe- 
cially at night, when brilliantly illuminated. One would scarcely have re- 
cognized the old Philosophical Hall, the committee had so changed every 
thing. 

The Class met there on Tuesday, June 29th, promptly at 10 a.m. 

The Class President had come all the way from Mobile expressly to 
attend the Decennial, and it being the first time he had been in Princeton 
or attended a Class meeting since graduation, he received from every body 
a most hearty welcome. He called the meeting to order at the appointed 
time, and remarking in a few, well-chosen words, that it was " meet to be 
grateful to God for his goodness to us as a Class and to recognize it first of 
all," asked Hodge to open our meeting with prayer. 

Then the old roll was called over by the Secretary, not one name 
omitted, though it contains so many stars. 

Twenty-one of the Class answered to the roll-call [see " Minutes of 
Class-meetings " for the list.] It will be observed in scanning the list that 
only one of the non-graduats members of the Class was present, viz. : Green. 
The remaining twenty were members who graduated with us — twenty 
out of fifty-four. 

The Committee were very much disappointed in not seeing some who 
had written expressing their intention to be present, but who, we after- 
wards learned, were detained from various good reasons. 

We are to remember too, that seven of the fifty-four graduates, or of the 
thirty-four not present, were among our dead. Of the remainder, one was 
in Europe, one in Mexico (Goldthwaite, since deceased,) one in California, 
one in Wyoming Territory, one was detained by sickness, and one by an 
unforeseen catastrophe, &c., &c. 

As to the non-graduates, many of them wrote expressive of their inter- 
est, but bewailing their inability to come. 

The following letters will explain themselves : 

MoRRiSTOWN, N. J., Juue 2i, 1869. 

Dear K : 

I fear that I will be kept away from our Decennial by my continued illness. I had 
hoped that the change of air would put such vigor into my system that, at least the dis- 
figurement of my face [He had had a fearfully swollen face from erysipelas] w^ould by 
this time have been removed. But the abscess (with its five openings) is very obstinate 
and I am obliged to go about with my face bandaged like a mummy ; so that I am no 
companion for men and women yet. 



TBE DECENNIAL. 25 

The rainy weather out here has hurt my throat, and my wife says that unless some 
miraculous change takes place, it will be unsafe for me to quit the conveniences of home 
at present. 

Under these untoward circumstances, I am like to be deprived of one of the most 
interesting reunions of my life, and I cannot write the extent of my disappointment. 

If by any Providential change it should become practicable for me to come next 
week, I will come : but lam afiaid I must send you a letter instead * * * *. If I neither 
corae nor write, please let this be my answer to roll-call. And may God bless our Class 
and its work in life. 

Yours truly, 

H. Everett Russell. 

The Secretary sent invitations to our meeting to the surviving friends 
of our deceased Classmates. The letter which follows is a response to the 
invitation from Webster's sister. 

Chester, N. H., June 15th, 1869. 
Mr. Kellogg — Dear Sir : 

Please accept my grateful thanks for your kind remembrance of my brother, as 
shown to me by your card of invitation to the Decennial meeting of the class of 1859. 
No one would be happier to be present than he, were be among the living, for his 
friends were very dear to him. It would give me also great pleasure to be present and 
if it were possible I would do so. While life and reason remain, my interest in all that 
pertains to the college and especially to the "Class" can never fail. May the meeting 
be a joyous one and profitable, blest with "precious memories for all time to come." 

Yours, very truly, 

C. E.W7. MORSE. 

The Secretary also sent invitations to the meeting to our old Tutors — 
both of whom were unable to be present, but sent the following letters, 
which were read. 

Yonkers, N. Y., June 28, 1869 
My Dear Mr. Kellogg: 

* * * I would be very glad to be able to be with you and to greet a Class 
in which I felt more than usual interest. It was the first College Class I instructed, and 
distinctly as I can recall many scenes in our intercourse, I can rememember none that 
were otherwise than pleasant. Should this reach you in time, please present to the 
Class of 1859 my most cordial salutation. 

I am, dear sir, Yours very truly, 

HENRY M. BAIRD. 



St. Paitl, Minn., June 24, 1869. 
Mr. A. H. Kellogg, Class Sec'y, — Dear Sir : 

I am truly sorry that it is impossible for me to accept your cordial invitation to be 
present at the Decennial meeting of the Class of 1859. It would afford me great pleas- 
ure to see you all again — mutually to read what ten years have written on our faces 

and to hear what they have put in our hearts — this is especially true of "Mr. , 

the father of the child." Do congratulate the cup-bearer for me, who am still of ^ Mr. 
Lyon's constituency,* but you need not wait the usual five minutes for the " Tute." 

As you talk of the past at " Headquarters," if any care to know, tell them I have 
continued to teach— have taught three years in a Brazilian college and about as long m 
Paris— have crossed the ocean six times and acquired three languages, the French, Ger- 
man and Portuguese. Am now Principal and owner of St. Paul Academy and shall proba- 
bly go to Washington and Jefferson college in September, where I have been elected 
Professor of Mathematics. It seems egotistical to talk of oneself, but we all do this 
freely at "Headquarters" noiv, but ten years ago we were called to order for talking of 
others even. Excelsior ! Wishing you all a delightful time in the " Museum, ' 

I am truly yours, 

J. S. SIMONTON. 



• Mr. Lyon was to deliver an Address representing the Bachelors of the Class. 



26 THE DECENNIAL. 

The Secretary sent complimentary invitations to our meeting to the 
respective Secretaries of the other classes as far as known. Many of them 
attended. 

From one of them came the following letter of regret and congratula- 
tion. We all remember Kugler with jDleasure. 

New Hampton, N. J., June 29, 1869. 
Rev. A. K. K.—Bear Sir : 

Accept my thanks for your invitation to be present at the Decennial meeting of the 
Class of 1859. It would afford me great pleasure to meet you all and especially to hear 
those who are on the Frogramme. Several of them were intimate friends, two were 
table-mates, if not class-mates; and our exercises were as interesting as most of those 
held under the reign of Dr John Maclean. 

I would be particularly pleased to see the baby, as I am somewhat interested in that 
branch of music. I am unable to present you with the congratulations of the corre- 
sponding baby of 1657, inasmuch as it remains " unhonored and unsung." But con- 
gratulate for me in the name of the chiss of '57 the aspiring and successful father. As 
the young hopeful itself must not be unnoticed, you will please pay it my regards. But 
as you are a bachelor and of course are not supposed to be posted in the art of com- 
municating with the " wee ones," allow me to suggest that you just 

Pull its toes, 

Or its nose, 

Or its clothes ; 

But I suppose 

I must close. 

Or vour Poet 

Will think 

I'm departing 

From Prose ; 

And I'd not ? 

Be HOLDEN 

To interpose. 
When HoLDEN 
Is waiting 
Himself 
To close. 
May joy and success be with you all. 

Yours most truly, 

JOHN B. KUGLER— Sec. Class of 1857. 

The following extracts from a letter of Yerger's (father of the " Class- 
Boy "), may be inserted here. 

Jackson, Miss., June 12, 1869. 
My Dear Kellogq : 

I have been much concerned about the coming Class-meeting. It grieves me greatly 
to write that it is impossible for me to be with you. * * * It is a great source of con- 
gratulation to us that our Class left the walls of Nassau before the fierce passions pre- 
ceding the late war were aroused. We can return to those walls, meet the same faces 
and receive the same cheerful grasp of the hand that we were accustomed to ten years 
ago. * * » I am very glad that Hodge presents the "cup" — Some day he shall see 
this boy of mine. I shall urge on him the importance of study, and see if I can make 
him come out in proper time the winner of whatsoever prize the Class of '59 may estab- 
lish. I have requested A. Lyon to represent Jimmy Junior on the occasion. I see you 
want a letter from those of us who cannot be present. Away with that for me. 
That finished orator, my brother Cole of the Mobile bar, will say a word for me to the 
Class. I know the tameness of a written brief too well to trust to that when an oral 
argument can be had. If you find him faihng, I trust that you will emplov additional 
counsel— some Philadelphia lawyer, say, Dick Colwell, * * * » i yy[g\^ y^^ ^q o-ive 
my especial regards to Mes. J. Newton Dickson and Mrs. S. R. Colwell. ° 

lam truly rejoiced to hear that they have taken compassion on their respective 
husbands. One never feels secure of the fate of his class-mate until he marries. Then 



THE DECENKIAL. 27 

you know his fate is sealed. We wlio are married, know what becomes of a fellow then. 
I send you herein a photograph of Jimmy Jr. * * * * 
With great love to all the Class, I am 

Your friend and Classmate, 

JAMES R. YERGER. 

We also insert the following letter from Worrall, one of our non- 
graduate members, which sufficiently explains itself. 

Keokuk, Iowa, June 11, 1869. 
Classmates : 

I can't be with you. I'm a thousand miles and more 
From the classic shades of Nassau — from the sound of classic lore. 
But the memory of our student life crowds on my teeming brain ; 
I long to bring it forth in words, be with you once again. 
I long to talk o'er college scrapes, to laugh o'er students' jokes. 
And would relish now with all my heart the Faculty to hoax. 
But times are changed, my classmates, since we spoke our last farewell 
To the memories of our college life, the sound of Dennis' bell. 
" Old Navigator's" blacking brush has ceased to polish bright 
The boots displaying evidence of a " horn-spree " over night. 
The stealthy tread of " Old John's " shoes no longer serves to damp us 
While burning Potter's fence-rails round the cannon in the campus. 
We'll ne'er again the senses of the Pi-inceton " snobs " o'erwhelm 
By hanging up their front gates and their wagons to our elms. 
************* 
" Nassau ! " " Nassau ! " that startling cry, will ne'er our ears adfcil, 
'Tis the war-cry of a nation that has made our faces pale. 
But the brave deeds of our classmates on many a battle ground. 
Crowd out the memory of "snob fights" with bruises for our wounds. 
We're men now, classmates, and we servo a nation proud and strong. 

From the banks of the Mississippi I this greeting send 
To the comrades of my college life — my classmates and ray friends. 
Our ranks are thin, the gaps are wide, their places can't bo filled, 
And voices ihat we dearly loved, the hand of death has chilled. 
Though few are left we still can pledge fast friendship o'er our wine. 
And cheer old Princeton's "Nassau Hall " and the " Class or '59." 

E. HUDSON WORRALL. 

The preparations for our meeting had excited great interest. This was 
owing in part to the fact, that for the first time in the history of the col- 
lege were any exercises connected with Class reunions to be made public. 
Many reasons had led the Committee to throw open, at least to invited 
guests, two of our gatherings, viz. : The Dedication of our Class Cannon, 
and the Cup Presentation exercises. And we were much gratified at see- 
ing the large number of distinguished friends in Priaceton and from abroad 
who sought admission to our entertainment. Every inch of space in the 
Museum was used and the building filled to its utmost capacity, but it 
was found to be impossible to accommodate many more besides who desired 
to attend. The publicity thus given to our meeting, though an experiment, 
was therefore a wise move. Notwithstanding the fact that the regular and 
extraordinary exercises of the College and the Societies (the Whig Cen- 
tennial must not be forgotten), and though the hour for one meeting was 
supper-time and the hour for the other bed-time, we were favored, on both 
occasions, with large, intelligent, and interested bodies of spectators. The 
President of the College, the Faculty, the Trustees, the Alumni, and many 
well known literary and scientific characters, relatives and lady friends of 
the Class, were present to give eclat to the inauguration of a new stjle of 



28 THE DECENNIAL. 

Decennial meetings. Everybody congratulated us for the signal success of 
our undertaking. 

It being tbe first meeting of the kind, there was of course some little 
friction — the exercises were possibly too numerous and too lengthy, con- 
sidering all the circumstances, but everything must have a beginning and 
those who come after us will profit by our experience. 

The purely business sessions of the Class were of course open only to 
the Class, so that it is not necessary for us here to speak of those meetings. 
The action taken at them will be found among the " Minutes of Glass 
Meetings." 

It has been found necessary, also, not to burden this article with any 
account of our Prize Foundation. This important matter is made the sub- 
ject of a separate chapter elsewhere, in this volume. 

The object of the present sketch is to furnish and preserve as far as it 
has been possible the speeches of the public performances. 



I. THE DEDICATION" OF THE CLASS OAFITOK 

This dedication took place at 6 p. m. of Tuesday, June 29th. The 
Class met at the " Museum " and marched in procession to the spot, the 
college-bell ringing the appointed signal. Cole presided. The exercises 
began with an Historical Recital, read by Ketciiam. It embodied the 
facts and circumstances connected with the cannon, which will be found in 
" The History of the Class in College " (Senior Year). 

It abundantly justified our claim to the name, by which it is to be 
henceforth known — " The Class of 1859 Cannon." 

Then followed a Poem by Wright, in his absence read by the Secre- 
tary. 

A letter from Weight was first read, however. 

Goshen, N. Y., June 3, 1869. 
My dear K. : — I have carried these past ten years (near the metacarpo-phalangeal 
articulation of the middle finger of the right hand) a couple of scars, won honorably on 
the night when, like Orestes, we of '59 went forth to rescue the statue of Minerva (other- 
wise the cannon), from the desecrating precinct of the Scythian temple (otherwise the 
town-street). The adventure is quite fresh in my mind. I thank yourself and the 
Committee for offering me the task of making some rhymes about it. ... I cannot be 
present. Such a twist things do take. ... I send the lines thus early, to have the flea 
out of my ear. 

Won't you present my warmest regards to the Ckiss ? I wish every man of them the 
most boundless good-fortune. My congratulations to tlie winner of the cup. 

Ever yours, W. B. Wright. 

The Poem was then read, and received with marked interest and fre- 
quent applause, which we are sorry its author can only hear of. It is as 
follows : 

Here for a little we lay down 
The graver duties of the gown. 
With fitting rites to dedicate 
This symbol sacred to the State. 
And, to be sure, the happy throng 
Must fetch the shy-foot Muse alou", 
Since trophies of hero c times 
Well deserve the poet's rhymes. 




Howell. 



867 Broadway. 



THE DECENNIAL. 29 

It best beseems a people great, 

That bath ihe sword for ancestor, 

Begotten from the loins of war, 

To board the ensigns of her earlier fate ; 

And, loyal to her own good name, 

Be grandly parsimonious of her fame. 

She will no shard of heroism 

Let slip into the dark abysm. 

But every morsel, every scrap 

Guards and garners in her lap. 

Gathering in from many martial plains 

All things that witness of her glorious pains. 

Ever before divine repose 

The crested front of battle goes ; 

Without, within, 'tis all tbe same, 

No man gets furlough from this game ; 

Beams of the world's security 

Rest on the ridges of a turbulent sea. 

Thus every gun, whose jaws of flame 

Unmuzzled were in violent days 

To save a noble folk from shame. 

May claim his ritual of praise, 

And in the after-lull and peaceful pause 

Doth prop tbe Senate and confirm the laws. 

Right well it graced the scholar's hand 

To rescue from the ooze and sand, * 

This waif of conflict which the sea 

Tossed to his fei-t neglectfully. 

Right well it graced the scholar's heart, 

Slighting awhile the learned dream, 

To quit his shady Academe, 

And bring from the irreverent mart 

This beggar blistered with the battle-scorch, 

That lay in rags before his stately porch. 

He lifts him up ; he leads him in ; 

Guards him as parcel of his kin ; 

And, stripping off his rusty suit. 

Clothes him afresh from head to foot; 

Gives him large welcome and abiding rest. 

And all the honor of a noble guest. 

It were a pleasant thing to tell 

How all this gracious feat befell; 

The mustering in the midnight rain. 

The march, the grapple and all the pain; 

What blows are dealt, what scaths i-eceived,-, 

Ere the vast weapon is upheaved ; 

What shoulders meet the strain, what foreheads melt. 

What dainty palms lose their scholastic felt. 

It were a pleasant thing to name 

Each hero and rehearse his fame; 

Portray each fearless Argonaut 

That in this venture sailed and fought ; 

Tell who was Jason and Pollux who, 

Lynceus, Tiphyus, all the crew. 

Nor would it suit the impartial Muse 

To skip those things of meaner use. 

The crow, the mattock, the spade, the rope, 

That were the hawsers of our hope. 

Or the brave axle that wns true 

To the huge burden bound thereto. 

Then comes the ferment of the town. 

That, waking, found their linnet flown ; 



30 THE DECEZSTJSriAL. 



The watch and ward, the tedious worry, 

And all the sequel of the story. 

These matters best befit the festive board, 

Where each man brings his tale and adds his word. 

Unlocks his heart and shares his long-kept hoard. 

Spare too the present bard to speak 

The horror of the affrighted gloom, 

"When Midnight from her piichy womb 

Disgorged the beer-heroic Greek ; 

When Nassau plucked the night-cap from her head. 

And clapped the frowning helmet tbere instead ; 

And through her hollow citadels 

Thundered her hoarse sonorous battle-yells. 

Needs borrow, in such arduous theme to shine, 

The ocean-roar and swell of Homer's line. 

Yet more the wise man may divine, 

Than a raw freak of foolish blood. 

In this our deed and name it good. 

Not for a pastime, nor for jest, 

Plucked we, the sons of fitty-nine. 

This faded flower of war and dressed 

Therewith our Gracious Mother's breast ; 

But for an ever-present sign 

That through the length of coming days. 

The scholar's and the warrior's bays 

Leaf with leaf should intertwine 

Upon the solemn forehead of the State. 

Thus the blade the hero draws. 

Shall strike in le:igue with striking Fate, 

Shall carve and not confound the laws. 

The Scholar's heart, the Scholar's brain 

Alohe the dome of Empire can sustain, 

Alone its shattered cope can build again. 

When Vision dies in all the land, 

And kingly words are put to scorn, 

Then Justice reels and can no longer stand. 

The Furies flock in vulturous bund. 

The people rots and monstrous things are born. 

Not less it suits the wise man's mind 

To nurse a steadfast vigilance, 

And when the war-trurnp shakes the wind. 

To waive delights and join the deadly dance. 

Who shies the fight, when Most High God commands, 

Shall have a hundred battles on his hands. 

These wholesome shocks and vigorous energies 

Stale the soft diet of luxurious ease. 

And purge the gross blood of too plethoric peace. 

Mother of many mighty ones, 

Slight not this grace of these thy sons ; 

If thou hast Pallas' wisdom clear, 

We bring the aegis and the spear. 

Within thy sight, beneath thy care, 

God teach the iron stock of war 

To burst his sullen rind and shoot 

In pleasant leaves and goodly fruit. 

But in the hard and tyrannous brunt, 

When Truth is sapped and Justice sore beset. 

Fear not, we pray, to pluck it by the root. 

And plant it in the foremost thunder-front. 

Long years to thee : wax greatly and expand : 

Shoot forth a lawful leaven through the land ; 

Not loitering by the road, nor thrust aside. 

But all abreast of marching time and tide ; 



THE DECENNIAL. 31 

Make thy sons staunch with those heroic thews 

That close with adverse Fate and trip the world's abuse ; 

So that, in every God-appointed day, 

Each one may stf,nd forth right and no man slink away. 



The exercises were concluded with an Oration by McKaig. We can- 
not reproduce his graceful elocution. We can only furnish his words. 
He spoke as follows : 

Brother members of the Class of '59. After ten long and eventful years of separa- 
tion we are assembled once more on this spot, with an object and a purpose unquali- 
fiedly the embodiment of an anomaly. 

From the world's broad field of battle, where we have scarce yet even thought of 
resting on our shields, we have returned to the calm and holy quiet of these classic 
shades to commemorate — not some erudite triumph of scholastic attainment, but an 
achievement of physical daring, and to crown with literary laurels this revolutionary 
relic, which force armed to take and force armed to keep. 

Here, amid these quiet walks of learning, where from every surrounding come fond 
memories of our happy and peaceful student-life, like sweet strains of music heard in 
the distance, we strangely segregate therefrom for special laudation and commemoration, 
an incident, the chief and grand characteristic of which was, the angry element of bat- 
tle and strife which pervaded its every phase. 

But in this eager world of action, where _;?j'niwess and com?" a^'e justly constitute, 

, " qualities that eagle-plume * 

Men's souls and fit tlieni for the fiercest sun 
"Which ever melted weak and waxen minds,"' 

it is well that stirring deeds should at times take equal position with the severer tri- 
umphs of dull and laborious thought. 

Our own memories and the interesting history we have just heard, bring vividly be- 
fore us the chain of events which made this cannon once more a permanent institution 
of the College of New Jersey — the successful coup cV'etat which transplanted it to Nassau's 
sacred soil — the memorable night of the expected attack upon the part of the citizens 
to force a restoration of it to its former location — the faithful watch and ward kept 
over it by the vigilant sentries of the Class of '59 — the wild fever of excitement which 
seized every student and gave even to the youngest and weakest strong arms and stout 
hearts for the anticipated fray — how home, friends, college discipline, aims and ends — 
all N^ere for the time lost sight of in the fierce determination to prevent any interference 
with this gun — the high and chivalric resolution which animated each student to do and 
dare everything in the maintenance of that purpose — and finally, how after the long and 
anxious night the College reveille tolled out the glad refrain of " all quiet along the 
lines," and the Class of '59 remained in triumphant and undisturbed possession of their 
trophy. 

All these things are as fresh in our memories as the occurrences of yesterday, and 
will be for years to come. But where is the tongue that to-day shall truthfully link our 
own modest present with the glorious past, and run back the narrative to the possibly 
more important part played by this piece of artillery in that grand epoch of the world's 
history, in which a new nation was born into the world. 

On that critical night when the patriot army of Washington lay at Trenton, with 
Cornwallis' overwhelming numbers iu front and the impassable Dela-vare surging and 
seething in the rear, was this gun borne by the soldiers of the infant Kepnblic on that 
secret and circuitous march, which by the never-failing genius of the great Continental 
Captain placed before morning that gallant host on the road to Princeton, faraway from 
the deserted camp with its watch-fires still kept brightly burning. 

On the battle plain of Princeton, just over yonder, that well-foughten field where the 
gallant Mercer gave his life-blood for the cause he so dearly loved, and proved that 
" What is worth living for is worth dying for too," 

and where even Washington found it necessary, contrary to his usual policy to risk his 
own life in the hottest of the fight that victory might perch upon the American banner, 
— there did this gun thunder forth its iron death in defence of the great principles which 
our forefathers there contended for. 



32 THE DECENNIAL. 

At that terrible moment when the flymg columns of Washington's advance seemed 
to tell the story of inevitable defeat, did its well-directed fire check the fierce bayonet 
charge of the advancing foe, and to 

" Glorious triumpli turn the tide of battle." 

Of these things no living man can now speak. lis honor or its shame are alike the 
irreclaimable property of its buried past. 

But lue have given it another history, carved out for it a new life, and like true fol- 
lowers of William of Nassau (whose illustrious life gave us the name of Nassau Hall, and 
who, with a physicial organism more delicate than that of the feeblest woman, never 
failed, during the successful fulfilment of that high destiny which he conscientiously 
believed made him the champion of all free nations and all true churches, to find life's 
sovereign elixir in deeds of human daring and human courage), we are here at our De- 
cennial meeting, in the same spirit which ever actuated him, to commemorate in this 
pleasant manner the heroic will, firmness and determination which made this old revo- 
lutionary cannon a monument in perpetuo of the Class of '59. 

And, my Classmates, paradoxical as may at first appear these novel ceremonies, we 
are to-day in the several attitudes assumed by the Class of '59, but accurate represent- 
atives of the true genius and spirit of American manhood. This morning generously 
furnishing funds towards the establishment of a College Prize, whereby greater incen- 
tive may be given to scholastic ambition and greater perfection in intellectual pursuits 
attained. At this hour paying a just tribute to that chivalric spirit and indomitable 
will which have ever been characteristic of the anglo-saxon race. To night intending 
to meet in social reunion and with hearts warm and true as ten years ago, regathering 
the scattered hnks of broken friendships, and amid the golden memories of the past re- 
garnering those 

" Treasured jewels of the mind — fairest tendrils of tlie Iieart, 
That with our being were entwined — of our very selves a part." 

The Intellectual., the Heroic and the Social — bright segments in the bow of radiance 
which now spans our College curriculum. Mind, spirit and heart — all this day are har- 
moniously blended in offering incense upon 'our Alma Mater's altar.' 

Could our Decennial record be written in characters more glorious and more gratify- 
ing? Could the living impress we now stamp on the scroll of Nassau Hall's history be 
more speaking in nobler deeds or truer aspirations? Shall future contemplation of this 
central point between the halcyon days of yore and the rugged, unknown, real life be- 
fore us ever fail in the inspiration of the purest and best emotions which ever welled 
forth from the human heart ? 

Yes, the crude handiwork of the youthful student and the practical finish of thema- 
turer man of action have this day completed our memorial structure. We now write 
upon it the inscription " Tarn Martetam Minerva'''' and with hearts swelling with a just 
pride point those who now stand where once vre stood, to its beautiful and perfect 
proportions. 

But with our triumph comes, too, a feeling of sadness and of sorrow. Our work is even 
now almost finished, and for the second time do we unloose the moorings that have secure- 
ly held us in the quiet haven of this grand old scholastic retreat. But unlike the first, 
the pain of this our Decennial parting is not softened by the promised hope of a future 
reassembhng* and this final consummation of our Class career, but brings us face to face 
with the final termination of all associated connection with this home of ouryouth- 
Wheresoever, therefore, the footsteps of our several destinies shall lead us, may the un- 
dimmed memory ot the graceful ceremonies of this day abide in our hearts. And in the 
great conflict of life to which we again return, if at times we are depressed or discouraged, 
may the grateful recollection of all we have felt and done this day, bring renewed hope 
and courage to our fainting hearts, for 

" The}' are records of our youth, kept to read in after years ; 
They are leaves of precious healing, they are fruits of choicest balm. 

The oration finished, the large audience dispersed, and the class left the 
gun to the fostering care of the undergraduates. 



* McKnig was mistaken in this. By reference to " Minute? of Class Meetings " It will be seen that 
provision is made for a mma perfect organization, and also a Meeting in 1879. 



THE DECENNIAL. 33 

In accordance with a resolution adopted in 18-68, the Committee of Ar- 
rangements Lad had the cannon fixed in position, painted and branded 
" 1859," also " 1776 ; " or rather, instead of being branded, the letters had 
been cut into the iron. They will be permanent. The grass had also been 
shaven closely around it, so that it looked very well. 

It wears its age and its honors remarkably. 



II. THE CUP PRESEISTTATIOF EXERCISES. 

It was nearer eleven o'clock than half-past ten, that same evening, be- 
fore our Class President could call the meeting to order. Chairs had to 
be brought from the church, where they had been required for the Junior 
Orator Exhibition. Then it was no small matter to arrange them when 
they came ; but at length quiet reigned, and all was attention. The Class 
were placed immediately in front of the platform on which its officers and 
Dr. McGosh were seated. The next row of chairs was filled by the Trus- 
tees and Faculty. The benches were completely occupied by ladies and 
their attendants, and outside of these and around them, all other invited 
guests, including Secretaries of various classes and the graduating class and 
distinguished friends from abroad. 

After calling the roll, our President, Hugh L. Cole, rose anA said : 

One of the disappointraenta which this Reunion brings to us, is the absence from 
the Presidential chair in the Institution, of that good old man who has borne with him 
in his retirement the affectionate regard of every son of Nassau. We cannot, however, 
fail to be proud of the distinguished gentleman who has succeeded him in that exalted 
position, and we are most happy to know th;it he has come here to-night to welcome us 
home again. The Class will be grateful to hear a few words from him. 

Whereupon President McCosh extended to the Class a most cordial 
greeting in the name of the Faculty and the Trustees. His exceedingly 
Avitty and humorous remarks provoked the heartiest laughter and frequent 
rounds of applause. He gracefully referred to our Prize Foundation, and 
in a very neat style hinted that a " Fellowship " might be the next move. 

We are very sorry not to be able to reproduce the speech, but it was 
the creature of his surroundings, and it has been impossible to recall it for 
publication. He revealed an earnest, sympathetic nature, and enjoyed 
with evident zest all the exercises, which were entirely novel to him. We 
must not forget to state how the Doctor emphasized his appreciation of the 
bravery (?) of the class in the matter of the cannon. 

When he had ended, our class-President made a brief response, wherein 
he rather committed us to a " Fellowship," and then, turning to the Class, 
proceeded to deliver his " Address of Welcome." We have been luore 
fortunate in securing a copy of this address, which we now spread before 
you. It begins thus : 

Classmates axd Dear Friends : 

The first decade of our class-history is accomplished. The first great step in life — 
that step which counts so terribly for time and for eternity — has, ior us, been taken. 
The old dreamy college days which we passed long years ago within these venerable 
balls, and beneath these grand old trees, have passed away forever. 

For ten long years each of us has been traversing — wearily and sometimes hope- 
lessly enough — the devious windings of his own path through life, not as in the old 
college days secure and strong in the confident support and sympathy of unwavering 

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34 THE DECENNIAL. 

and incorruptible friends, but, in many instances, groping his way through storm and 
darknf-ss, friendless and alone. 

But now each of us has for a time turned aside from that weary way, and has set 
his fice steadfastly towards the Mecca of his school-boy faith. 

And so it is that we are again assembled beneath the roof-tree of our Alma Mater, 
to live over again those sweet old days of calm and careless bliss which, hke a crystal 
gate, divide the bright and flower-decked play-ground of our childhood from the dark 
and stormy battlefield of life. 

Which of us dreamed, as he passed through that gate, of the terrors of the way 
that lay before him ? Which of us found it in his bounding heart to believe else than 
that the great world was to be for him the theatre of his pastimes, or at worst the work- 
shop in which honest toil and patient endeavor would full surely conquer happiness and 
fame. 

Such a thing as sorrow ; such a thing as failure ; such a thing as sudden and violent 
death, entered not into the scope of our vision. And yet already, to some of us at 
least, sorrow and failure are but as household words; and the vacant places on our 
benches here will not permit us to forget that Death himself has been busy in our midst. 

And now those of us who are left have gathered around our Mother's hearthstone 
to talk over the stern realities which have taken the place of those bright anticipations : 
to compare experiences of the past, and to encourage each other in the right and noble 
performance of the duties which lie before us in the future. 

Bat our talk will be not so much of our successes as of our failures ; and we will 
seek to leaim of each other not so much how some have gained the heights, as how the 
most have managed to avoid the pitfalls. 

Classmates — this is a sad strain in which to begin what the Secretary has denomi- 
nated an " Address of Welcome ; " but all such meetings as this must be sad, and woe 
to him who would shut his eyes to the lessons that may here be learned, and who would 
seek to degrade this most impressive reunion to the level of an aimless merry-making. 

Well do I remember the last time the Class — or a part of it — met together before 
our graduation. We violated one of the somewhat stringent rules of that day, and had 
our little symposium in the old hotel yonder; and after supper as we joined hands 
around the board and sang for the last time our old college songs, not one heart but 
was heaving with emotion, not one eye but was wet with tears : and yet for all that, 
classmates, the sad parting of that time was not so sad as the meeting of to-day. And 
yet in spite of all the heartrending memories which it evokes; in spite of the wide 
difference between what we are and what we hoped to be which it reveals, we cannot 
fail to regard this meeting as in all respects most significant and auspicious. 

The interval of time which has elapsed since we resided within these walls has been 
fraught with such events as have no parallel in the history of our country, and few in- 
deed in the annals of the world. And it has left us in a state of uncertainty and un- 
rest, which may well challenge the purest hearts and the best minds in our land to 
reassure and to quiet. 

There are old misunderstandings to clear up; old wounds to heal; and above all 
there is justice to be done in places whence justice seems to have fled forever. 

This is a portion of the Nation's work to which I firmly believe the sons of Nassau 
Hall are preeminently adapted, and most of all, perhaps, the men of '59. 

Questions the most momentous with which statesmen or sages had ever grappled pre- 
senied themselves to us at the very threshold of life ; and before the toga of manhood 
nad come to sit easily upon our unaccustomed shoulders, we were hurled into the thick- 
est of the fray. 

The causes which led to this sad state of public affairs were at least none of our pro- 
ducing; and so it falls out that however widely we may have differed during the past 
ten years, we cannot have failed — in our more thoughtful moments — to believe that 
each of us, at all events, had in the course which he pursued, been actuated by the 
honest convictions of his heart. 

It is not credible that any of us should have believed that his dear friend and class- 
mate, whom he had known to be a true and single-hearted youth, emulous only of 
doing right and justice to all men and under all circumstances, should in a few short 
months lose his honor, lose his truth, lose his purity, and either deliberately and basely 
espouse the wrong, or sell himself to the doubtful cause for mere glitter and tinsel. 

No, classmates, we believe in each other yet, and in the inmost recesses of onr 
hearts we have beheved in each other all the time. 

If this be true — and is it not true ? — see what a vantage ground we occupy, where- 
upon to labor together for the general weal. 

I have said that I believe the sons of Nassau Hall to be especially fitted for the per- 



THE DECENNIAL. 35 

formance of the great work of the hour. This college, more than any other in the whole 
country, was in former years free from all sectional or political bias. 

This was a training school for scholars, and not for demagogues. Here young men 
from every section and of every creed met in almost perfect concord, and leaving out 
of view those matters about which the outside world so fiercely contended, they devoted 
themselves to literature, science and the cultivation of those deep and ardent social and 
fraternal attachments which can never be totally extinguished while the soul that is 
ennobled by them shall preserve its identity. 

Noble old Princeton ! venerable mother ! The excellent things which for more than 
a century thy sons have continually achieved in every field of science, of statesmanship, 
of religion, is a sure and unerring voucher that thou at least hast been a staunch 
and faithful teacher, too wise to be misled by every current of the popular fancy, too 
true to thyself to swerve from the plain and well-worn pathway which has conducted 
thee to glory and to fame. 

What is it, classmates, that is stirring the hearts of the sons of Nassau in every part 
of our country, and is moving them to put forth all their strength in behalf of the good 
old college? What is it that has filled this village to day to its utmost capacity with 
the friends of Alma Mater ? What is it that has impelled me to leave my far-off home 
upon the Mexican Gulf, and travel fifteen hundred miles for no earthly purpose except 
to be present at this meeting ? 

It can be no mere curiosity ; no idle whim of pleasure-seeking fancy ; no mere super- 
ficial enprit ch corps. No, it is something deeper than this — it is the most emphatic ex- 
pression of the ever-growing conviction that this old college at no far-distant day is 
going to fulfil the destiny which its unrivaled location, its former reputation for cosmo- 
politan conservatism, and above all its splendid and stainless history has all along 
marked out for it — and that destiny is to take her place at the very head o^he educa- 
tional institutions of the American continent. 

We have the finest geographical position in the country ; we have an ancient and 
well-earned escutcheon, unpolhited by a single stain ; we have a noble company of al- 
umni all burning with enthusiasm for theif Alma Mater; we have in the person of 
our venerable President, a most illustrious leader, worthy of the college over which he 
has been called to preside — and whose name itself has already become a very tower of 
strength in the land. What else do we need in order to be able to place our mother 
upon the very summit of the sacred mountain '? Simply this — that she should keep her- 
self aloof from the wretched and miserable passions and prejudices of the hour, and 
trust ever in those two great guides which alone can conduct her safe when the storms 
arise — Constitutional Liberty — and true, catholic Religion. 

To do this involves not only the calmest and wisest counsels among those who ad- 
minister her affairs ; but also that her sons everywhere should be true in their allegi- 
ance to her, and sincere in their confidence in, and affection for each other. 

With these aspirations for our Alma Mater swelling my bosom, with these grand 
anticipations delighting the eye of my imagination, I welcome you, brothers, to our 
mother's home. But the tie which binds us together, and which has summoned us from 
all parts of the land to meet here to-night, is not merely our common allegiance to our 
common mother; there exists for us a still stronger and more endearing bond ; a bond 
than which outside of near consanguinity, no stronger can exist on earth; a bond which 
is expressed by that one word so often and so lovingly pronounced here to night — class- 
mate. 

Go where we will, forget what we may, change as we must, we shall still bear about 
with us the happy memory of old class-associations, and the ardent attachment to old 
classmates, and neither distance, nor oblivion nor decay, can ever efface those hallowed 
recollections from our minds, nor remove those old familiar faces from the picture gal- 
leries of our hearts. 

Alas ! that so many of those faces should now exist nowhere on earth save in the 
hearts of those who loved them so. 

Has it ever occurred to you. Classmates, to eniuuerate those of us who have gone 
home, and to ascertain the proportion that they sustain to those of us who still bear the 
heat and burthen of the day? /was not prepared for the result of such an inquiry, and 
I feel sure that many of you will be astounded to learn that of all those who, from first 
to last were connected with the class, onejifih*- have passed away. And your astonish- 
ment would give place to grief and dismay, but that remembering who they are that 
have gone, we cannot fail to believe that their present state is happier, as their life 
was in most cases purer than ours. 

* [Since Goldthwaite's death, the proportion is just one-fifth. — K.] 



36 THE DECENNIAL. 

I think of them ; how gentle, how good, how simple-hearted, how lovely they were ! 
If we had been asked at any time to select the noblest and purest of our whole number, 
could we have been so unerring in our choice, as He has been who has been making up 
His jewels ? 

Run over the bright list with me, and in heart-tones more fitting than any words of 
mine can be, let us recall their virtues : 

First the undergraduates, Andersox, Cossitt, Courts, Mills, A. Moore, Muse, Rob- 
ertson and Storrs ; and then those who entered life with us ten years ago, Frierson, 
Lloyd, Pollock, Robinson, Tj^rleton, Webster and Zabriskie. 

Is it not a noble company ? Is there among us now a like number, who if called up- 
ofi to-night could so fitly enter into the Paradise of the faithful, and meet face to face 
our blessed Lord ? Ere long, when one of us is called away, we can say with the old 
Greek philosopher, " He has gone to the majority :" and then, instead of regarding him as 
lost to the Class, we ought rather to think that his probation is ended, and that he has at 
last been found worthy to join his brothers in their changeless, happy home. 

And so, at the close of my remarks (poor, desultory, unworthy remarks), I find myself 
returning to the same sad state of mind in which I began. 

It is not my purpose, surely, to mar the pleasure and the joyousness of this meeting, 
and it is a matter of sincere regret to me, that I have not hit upon a happier vein. But 
the old feeling of security in your friendship and forbearance, of which I spoke before, 
has taken full possession of me again ; and I am sure that there is not one of you who 
is not willing to accept what I have said in the place of that high-sounding "Address of 
welcome " which our good Secretary promised you. And indeed. Classmates, altho' 
totally unable to make you anything like an "Address," I can and do welcome you, 
from my heart of hearts, and most sincerely hope that this reunion may be so happy an 
event that the brightness of it shall illumine all our way down to the latest step iu our 
lives. 

At the conclusion of Cole's address, be announced that the main busi- 
ness of the evening was to dispose of a certain " Cup " which Lad been 
prepared for a certain purpose, and that that business was iu order. He 
called on the Secretary for an explanation of the rest of the " Order of 
Exercises," who then read the following report : 

The Committee on the " Cup" respectfully present the following as their report : 

At a Class-meeting held May 16, 1859, on our Class Day, it was resolved to institute 
a "Class-Cup," to be given at our Triennial meeting to the member of the graduating 
class who shall have complied with the customary conditions. A Committee was ap- 
pointed to collect funds, wherewith to procure the " Cup." 

At our Triennial meeting, held June 24, 1862, " in view of the fact that no apphca- 
tionhad been made for the " Class-Cup," it was resolved " that the custom be abolished 
and that the money collected for the purpose be appropriated to Class expenses." 

At a subsequent meeting, however, held June '28, 1865, the action of the Triennial 
meeting on the subject of the " Class-Cup" was reconsidered, and it was resolved " that 
the tirae for awarding the Class-cup be extended to the Decennial meeting in 1869, and 
that the Secretary be clothed with discretionary powers in reference thereto." 

At a subsequent meeting, held June 23d and 24th, 1868, "the selection of the 
Class-Cup was left to the Committee of Arrangements for the Decennial." 

Such is a summary of the Class action in the matter of the " Cup." 

In deciding the question raised by the terms of the original resolution instituting 
the " Cup," viz. : that it should be "given to the member of the graduating class who 
shall have complied idth the customary conditions,^^ it was necessary to become informed 
of precedents. The matter was settled by the late Prof. Giger, wiio in a letter addressed 
to the Secretary of the Class of 1861, contained in their Triennial Report, stated " that 
it had been customary to present the Class-Cup to the first child (male or female) of a 
regular graduate only." This language impUes that the child must be living at the time 
of the Presentation, if the Cup was to be given to the child. In the case of the Class of 
1856, according to their Triennial Report, all dispute was forestalled by inserting in 
their resolution, the exphcit condition, "that the child should be hving on the day of 
the Presentation." 

It seems plain, therefore, as it is reasonable, that our Class-Cup should be presented 
to that graduate member of the Class who first became a father — it being understood 
that his child is still alive on the occasion of the Presentation. 

This being the rule to guide us in making the award, our duty was plain. We find 



THE DECENNIAL. 37 

on examining the data on the subject, that us far as known to your Committee, there 
have been born to ^raawa^e members of this Class some thirty-two (32) children, and 
that of these the son of Yerger is entitled to the "Cup," as the oldest livinq child. 
Your Committee, therefore, decide that James Rucks Ykrger, Jr., son of James 
Rucks Yerger, Senior, and Rebecca Stitii, sb.ould receive the award. 

The Cup is a silver goblet, lined with gold, and ornamented on either ."^ide by scrolls 
of ivy leaves. It bears on one side the seal of the College and on the other an insciiption 
which reads as follows : "Presented by the Class of 1859, at their meeting June 29 
1869, to James Rucks Yerger, ■ Class-Boy,' born Xov. 1, 1862." 
All of v.'hich is respectfully submitted, 

David Magie, "] 

J. Nkwton Dickson, ! 
W. S. Olipiiant, I Committee. 

Alfred H. Kellogg, J 
June 29, 1869. 

Ft thus appearing from the Committee's report that Yerger's son was 
entitled to the " Cup," on motion of Colwell, it was resolved that the re- 
port of the Committee be adopted, and that the " Class Cup " be presented 
to James Eucks Yekger, Jr., and that he be adopted as the " Class Boy" 
of '59. The resolution was responded to by a '■' three times three." 

On motion of Dickson, it was resolved that James Rucks Yerger, 
Senior, be appointed guardian for the Class Boy, and be entrusted v/ith the 
sole manageuient, education, and maintenance of the same. 

This motion excited no little merriment. The exercises the nproceed- 
ed acoording to the order adopted by the " Committee of Arrangements." 

Frank Hodge, who had been appointed by the Committee to present 
the Cup to the " Class Boy," proceeded to discharge that duty. He 
said : 

Mr. President, Classmates, Ladies, and Gentlemen : 

It is made my pleasant duty this evening, in the name of the Class, to present this 
beautiful cup to our " Class boy." Before doing this, however, it may not be amiss to 
refer to the motives or reasons which have led the Class to offer and present this re- 
ward. 

When the Class of '59 came to graduate ten years ago, it made the unwelcome dis- 
covery that it was in a most deplorable condition. During the merry, thoughtless days 
of our College life, we had been insensible to our misery, and had even imagined our- 
selves a jolly set of fellows. But when we came to separate, the truth in all its dread 
reality burst upon us that our life here had only been tolerable on the principle that 
" misery loves company ; " and now, since we must go forth alone into the cold world, 
our condition was unbearable. 

Do you ask the cause of our misery? It was celibacy! — that distressing malady 
which is quite epidemic among the young. Yes! I hate to acknowledge it, we were 
bachelors to a man. Had Lord Byron the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with us, 
which unfortunately for the poet he had not, he could not have described more accu- 
rately the miserable condition of each member of the Class, than when he wrote : 

"The keenest pangs the wretclied And 
Are rapture to tlie dreary void, 
Tlie leafless desert of tlie mind, 

Tlie waste of feelings unemployed." 

Ah! trulv there was an aching void in each and every heart. Our noblest affections 
still slumbered in our breasts in the most ignoble inactivity, and in consequence our very 
existence was as a "leafless desert" compared with which positive agony would be very 
acceptable. Do you wonder that, on making this discovery, we unanimously felt bad. 

But there was yet another element in our misery. Wc were baimless! 

There was no one, upon whom when old age should overtake us we could lean for 
support; who would transmit our name to coming ages; who would be the custodian 
of our fame and the chronicler of our history. To the individual members of the Class 
there might be given heirs who w'ould perpetuate their individual names, but what 
should become of our class name and class honors? 



38 THE DECENNIAL. 

For four j'ears amid these classic shades we had been making an illustrious record, 
not merely of intellectual prowess but also of knightly (nightly) daring, which has been 
so eloquently, and I may add, so admirably referred to this evening by the honored 
President of Nassau Hall. What should become of this ? Who should inherit this rich 
legacy, and hand it down to coming ages? Or, fearful alternative! should the name 
and the deeds of '59 die out and be forgotten ? This must not be ! Like King Richard, 
who in his desperation offered to barter his kingdom for a horse, we were ready to ex- 
claim: "A boy! a boy! A kingdom for a boy ! " * * * Under these solemn and 
depressing circumstances, the Class gathered in the old "Soph-room." The heads of 
the wisest bung low, and gloom settled upon every brow. 

At length a youth — would that I knew his name that I might associate it with this 
proud hour of triumph ! — a profound, sagacious youth arose and moved that a commit- 
tee be appointed to raisi money to raise a cup, to raise a hoy ! 

The cloud immediately lifted, and light broke through the darkness. Nor was it 
like the meteor's flash, brilliant but transitory — nor like the shining of the polar star, 
steady but cold nnd powerless ; but like the sun in the zenith, dispcUing the gloom and 
instilling life- Tlie proposition was adopted unanimously, and with ardent hope and 
firm resolve the Class of '59 w-ent forth into the world. 

To-day, after ten years of separation, we have once more gathered about our Alma 
Mater to rekindle our affection for her, to renew our consecration to her and at the 
same time to resurvey our own condition and ascertain the progress of our reform. 

The result has been most gratifying! Twenty-six of our number have sued and 
won as fair hands and true hearts as ever were bestowed. Long live the v/ives of '59 ! 

It is a melancholy truth, however, over which we sincerely mourn, that upon our 
roll may still be found the names of lonely and disconsolate bachelors. 

But let me say in all confidence within this family circle — though on no account 
must it be repeated without these doors — this arises fi'om no fault of theirs. If earn- 
est, persevering effort were always crowned with proportional success, each one of 
these unfortunates would have been married ten times or more. 

As far as the Class is concerned, the reform has been complete. There is not one 
among us so cold, so phlegmatic, that he has not felt its impulse and yielded to its 
power. Whatever our outward seeming, in intent and purpose we are all married 
men. 

Nor has the reform of the second element of our misery been any less successful. 
When we parted we were bairnless. We reassemble in the condition of the 

" * * * * old woman, 

Who lived in a shoe, 
She had so many children, 

She didn't know what to do." 

Think of it, my friends, thirty-two entries have been made for the Class-cup ! 

Thirty-tico candidates — some of the male, and some of the female persuasion — of 
all ages, and sizes, and names — are striving and clamoring for the honor of being our 
chosen child and heir. So severe has been the contention that a committee was ap- 
pointed — composed of disinterested bachelors — to settle the dispute, and award the 
prize. This committee, on the principle of " first come first serve," has unanimously 
decided that James Rucks Yerger, Jr., is the rightful claimant, and shall be the Class- 
BoY. The disappointment to some has been bitter — so bitter that through a represent- 
ative they demand a heai-ing upon this occasion. But since all could not be success- 
ful, since this high honor could only be attained by one — I know I speak the sentiment 
of the whole Class, when I say. We are glad that that one should be the high-minded, 
the generous-hearted, the cliivalric Yerger. May the boy who bears his name inherit 
also his noble heart ! 

Class-mates! the desire of our hearts is fulfilled. We have a son and heir! How 
shall I, as your mouth-piece, give adequate expression to the joy and exultation which 
is welhng up like a perennial fount in each paternal bosom ? Who that is a father here 
cannot recall that ever memorable hour when for the first time he gazed upon his 
child? Did he, could he then clothe in language the emotions which swelled within 
him at that glad vision? I trow not. Much less can my poor stammering tongue 
give fitting utterance to that exuberance of joy, which, like the restless sea, is surg- 
ing in sixty-five fond fiithers' hearts. You will not, I know, demand any thing so un- 
reasonable; and I will not attempt anything so hopeless. Therefore, leaving you to 
the silent enjoyment of your paternity, I hasten to discharge the duty with which you 
have honored me. 

James Rucks Yerger, Jr., in the name and as the representative of the Class of 1859, 
I present you this cup. 



THE DECENNIAL. 39 

It is made of silver — pure, bright, and precious ! so would wc have the savor of 
your life in all your words and actions among your fellow men ! Within it is gold — 
more beautiful and precious still. So would we that the inner desires, principles, and 
motives of your heart should be purer, truer, nobler, even thau your outward appear- 
ing. 

On the on • side is engraved your name in full ; on the other, the seal and motto of 
our Alma Mater. So would we have you remember that as in your birth you were 
wedded indissolubly to your name, so by this adoption you are stamped and sealed for 
Nassau Hall. 

It is a cup — the symbol of mirth and gladness — so do we wish that joy and happi- 
ness and peace may flow together throughout your earthly lot. It is the symbol of 
life — so our last and best wish for you, our boy, is that you may drink of the water of 
life and live forever. 

Great disappointment was expressed by both classmates and guests 
at the necessary absence of both the " Ckxss-Boy " and his father. Nor did 
the photograph of the boy, which was circulated through the room for ex' 
hibition, in any wise allay the disappointment. Besides, the classmate in- 
dicated by Yerger to represent his ^oy on the occasion had failed to receive 
the notice of his appointment and had arrived in Princeton late in the day 
as unprepared to receive a " cup " as any of us. Still, he most cheerfully 
agreed to speak as proxy, and his audience received his address with the 
generous welcome which he deserved. 
Dr. Lyon rose and said : 

» 
Mr. President, Classmates, Ladies, and Gentlemen : 

When upon my arrival in these halls this morning, I received for the first time the 
announcement that I would be expected, on this occasion, to appear in public, I was 
startled. 

When again I reflected that I had for the past decade been leading the quiet life of 
an JSsculapian, not having appeared before an audience as a speech-maker since this 
day ten years ago, wheii my eloquence (?) and that of the rest of '59, burst with such 
vehement power from the rostrum in yonder church, I was doubly startled. But when 
informed further, yea, positively assured, that I, a forlorn bachelor, was not only to speak, 
but in speaking to personate a married man, and not only a married man but the father 
of a seven-years-old boy, I w^as startled beyond expression. I was appalled. 

In view, then, of the extreme novelty of the position in which I find myself so imex- 
pcctedly placed — to say nothing of my necessary state of unpreparedness— I feel that I 
am wholly unable to treat the subject in a manner at all commensurate with its merits. 
I shall not therefore attempt it. 

Nevertheless, Mr. President, in the absence of our friend and classmate, Yerger— 
and we all regret that his bright and genial face is not seen among us to-night— I did 
not feel at liberty utterly to refuse to represent him. It becomes, then, my duty to do 
this as best I can, and to the utmost extent of my imagination to sympathize with hmi 
in his fatherly pride, and for him to rejoice in the glorious triumph he has achieved 
over all the other numerous aspirants for earliest paternal sensations. 

Thus in my feeble way I do accept in the name of James Rucks Yerger, Jr., this 
cup— this beautiful token of '59's fostering regard for her first-born. And in his name 
I thank you for it, and through vou, the Class. And for his noble father, our friend, 1 
declare to you that the boy shall be trained up to love, respect, and honor, each and 
every member of this Class. I feel that I assume not too much when I promise that 
the Class of 1859 unites with me, and with one voice, in bestowing upon his mtant head 
their richest blessing, and in earnestly ottering the heartfelt prayer, that as he grows to 
man's estate, as his young mind matures and expands, he may become a_ useful and 
pious ornament to society— eminent in whatever sphere in life he moves— distinguished 
alike for his goodness and his greatness. 

It will be remembered that, according to the Committee's Report, sub- 
stantiated by the Statistical Tables printed herewith, Yerger's boy was but 
one of thirty-two children born to graduate members of the Class. \\ c 



40 THE DECENNIAL, 

cau readily j^ercelve, therefore, both how active was the competition and by 
consequence, how great the disappointment occasioned by the award. It 
was but fit that the feeling and views of these disappointed ones shou^ld be 
allowed expression, and the Committee had but anticipated their unanimous 
desire, when it appointed Monras to represent them on an occasion so full 
of rejoicing to all others. 

Accordingly, Morris represented them. 

He tried to appear any thing but disappointed — he even assumed the 
congratulatory, the better to conceal sadness of heart ; but still, sometimes 
that is the best way to bear a dashing of one's hopes to the ground. But 
hear him for his cause. He said : 

Mr. President, Classmates, Ladies, and Gentlemen : 

This occasion is one of deep interest. We have met to signalize the connection of 
the Past and the Future — the connection of our college days ^vith our posterity. It is 
by this means we hope to transmit to them the history of our aspirations and our ambi- 
tions, our hopes and our disappointments, our successes and our failures. Who of us, ten 
years ago, did not hope and aspire to be a suoeessful claimant to the Silver Cup ? And 
now, when we consider that the absorbing theme of reflection on this occasion is a youth 
of seven years, and through him the youth of our class, we cannot but feel that here is 
a theme freighted with many joyful considerations, yet of solemn moment. 

It is a solemn theme to those of us to whom has been committed the training of 
these little immortals to lives of honor and usefulness. It is solemn to those of iis 
across whose thresholds the angel of death has come and robbed their home of its 
light and hope in taking away the firstlings of the fire.side. 

But thus solemn though our theme in these aspects, I am not forgetful that this 
is a joyous occasion — one of congratulation, especially to our good brother Yerger. 
We remember his genial, faithful friendship. We gladly honor him as the Father in Ids 
Clans, and would that all fiithers were as kindly and amiable, as worthy of others' affec- 
tion as he. 

We cannot treat this occasion as one only intended for fun. It is a good time for 
those of us who are fathers to stimulate each "other to a proper provision for our chil- 
dren. Let us provide food for thought, stimulate mental growth — endeavor to train 
them to usefulness. 

All cannot wear the crown, but all can be crowned with useful lives. Few can 
become princes, either in mercantile or public life, but all may become, by proper cul- 
ture, truly noble in mind and heart, may make theirs a welconied presenceeverywhere, 
may have a warm heart for their fellows and tender sympathy for those who need it — 
richer gifts than power or position — nay, more than this, be Christlike in life and tem- 
per and goodness. 

It seems to us that (he crying evil of the day is not bahy-cvymg but rather the 
crying of grown infants for show and appearances and entertainment — the desire to 
eclipse all others in magnificence, descending even to splendor of dress and equipage 
and horne. It is the seeming to be, not being what one seems to be, which is the 
controlling motive of the multitude. And parents are carried away with the current of 
evil, and bring up their children in the love of fashion and show. These thoughts 
occupy thcni rather than tlie desire of a permanemt, reasonable, sensible education. 
How few strive to mould the immortal being so as to benefit as well as adorn society 
here and hereafter. ye bachelors of the Class, whv is it that you have not sought 
a prudent help-meet and obeyed the Scriptural injunction, " Crescite et mulliplicamini," 
— is it not because of this crying evil of the day ? 

But, Classmates, we are advised better things of you, though we thus speak. We 
know that those of you who have married, have married a helpmeet and secured a 
home. It's an old-fashioned thing to secure, but never grows old. Bring up your chil- 
dren to perpetuate the good old institutions of marriage and home. 

The programme represents you and myself as disappointed— disappointed that yours 
or mine failed to receive that which only one can receive ! May we not rather look with 
pity on the poor bachelors, vdio could not put in even the shadow of a clnim to 
the cup ? They surely ought to be called the disappointed. We hope none of them 
have been rejected. We cannot but commiserate with them all, and utter the 
earnest hope that the next decade will find them on the high road to paternal honors. 
But let those of our number, whoever they may be, who are among the dis- 



THE DECENNIAL. 41 

appointed ones, equally with us all, lay all such feelings aside, and do honor to the hero 
of this occasion by rejoicing- in his success. We meet here as friends. May we not be 
absent from the great meeting and rejoicing in the Great Father's house on high. 

'• The Bachelors " of the Class referred to by Moruis, had not been 
overlooked by the Committee. It was understood that such an. occasion 
as a ' Cup Presentation', must have a special significance to them. Besides, 
those who had long watched their course with surprise, were eager to dis- 
cover what were their views as to things matrimonial in general, andClass- 
cups in particular. The Committee had, therefore, selected T. Lyon to ex- 
plain the position of these Bachelors on questions so momentous to society, 
and especially to themselves. This action was taken by the Committee, 
supposing that Lyon would continue faithful to the Benedictine Brother- 
hood. We are sorry to say that, though he so emphatically laid clown what 
all anchorites believe to be the simple truth on the subject, he intends 
(if report can be credited) to abandon the community, and his principles. 
Still, he has nOt yet done so; and we therefore put in their proper place 
an abstract* of his remarks on the interesting occasion. He said : 

Mr. Peesidext, Classmates, Ladies, and Gentlemek : 

I rise as the representative of the "Bachelors" of '59. It is, perhaps, needless for 
me to say that I rise with embarrassment. My embarrassment is not occasioned either 
by the presence of those eminent in learning and dignity, or of these beautiful ladies. 
It does not arise because of an imstudied or despised theme. It is not even for myself 
that I so feel. My embarrassment, sir, is because of the presence here of Ihy married 
classmates! It comes from a contemplation of their unfortunate situation, as they 
sit before us bound hand and foot in the fetters of matrimony, their very look dis- 
tinguishing them from the rest of us who rejoice in the unbroken spirit of the 
free. 

For these, alas, we have no word of cheer. We can but pity them. This meeting 
must revive in them painful recollections of the freedom of the college days, and the 
remembrance must make the fiict only the more painful that their present days are 
irrecoverably bound to a woman's zone. 

We regret to remind such of their sad, sad fate, but we cannot but tell thcni that 
we are disappointed in them and that we profoundly pity them. 

But, Mr. President, though thus we feel, we have been compelled this evening to 
listen to dissertations in the married interest, manufactured clearly under domestic 
superintendence, and abounding not only in arrogant assumptions and insinuations, but 
also in open declarations against our honorable bachelorhood and unasked advice. 
Though we are, as a class, modest to a fault, we cannot rest under such imputations, 
and we must repel such factitious sympathy and show our scorn for such arrogating 
superiority. 

Ashamed of my bachelorhood ! Why, sir, instead of this, I rejoice and esnlt in it. 
I feel honored in being the mouthpiece of those of '39 who are in a like free, honorable, 
blessed, single condition. 

It is ours to remember, fellow-bachelors, that our distinguished progenitor was a 
bachelor, when he was given dominion over the creatures. It surely was before and 
not after the creation of the first mother that the Divine judgment was uttered which 
pronounced his work to be " very good." 

None will deny, moreover, that with the advent of woman there came to man labor 
and sorrow, temptation, subjugation and every species under the genus tribulation. 
History, both sacred and profane, tells us that women have had a potent influence in 
the general wreck of empires and the fiiU of worlds. And need I remind you as a 
proof of woman's inordinate spirit of conquest, that a certain Mrs. Aphrodite (goddess 
of love and beauty they commonly call her), as also Master Cupid a boy of hers of_ inso- 
lent airs, is going to and fro, here and there and everywhere, armed with a prodigious 
stock of rankling arrows and horrid darts, prepared with a special eye to the wounding 
of such as we ? Why, we are the most unoffending members of civil society. Our charac- 



*This is what it purports to he, an abstract, simply of T. Lyon's speech. It is, however, a 
pretty full one, and made np with the help of tlie Author's notes. The r/-iiM«o'prouounoed the 
speech " witty and ingenious." 



42 THE DECENNIAL. 

ter is sedulously to avoid all entanglements and disturbances of the peace, demanding 
nothing and asking only for peace. And yet it is matter of regret to our double 
friends that we have succeeded in avoiding the snares into which the arts of woman 
would entrap us. 

Sir, I would offend no one, but in candor I must say, that such a sentiment can find 
rational explanation only in most certain coercion, sheer infatuation, or the sham of the 
fox without a tail. However, since we find the matrimonial defenders bound to defend 
their view of the case, and in such arrogant array against us, we feel constrained to 
break a lance with them. 

Mr. President, we know that long since it has been decreed that our amiable 
fraternity are " drones in the social hive." We know also that we have been called, 
in view of what has seemed our dngle imperfection, " the distorted halves of mankind." 
Well, sir, whether " halves " or wholes, we find ourselves sufficiently symmetrical to 
preserve our equilibrium under these rough bolts from tender hands. As for being 
" drones " we may remark among ourselves, that by these sweet honey-bees we are 
not stung to death. 

Some lady wit has told us that " Bachelors are irregular substantives, always in the 
singular number and objective case — who, when told to conjugate^ always decline.''^ 
Well and good. Under such an allegation, we take refuge, first of all, behind the acute 
insinuation of Punch : 

" Wliich is of greater value— prythee say — 

The bride or bridegroom ? Must the truth be told ? 
AJas, it must. The bride is, given aivay— 
The bridegroom, often, regularly sold." 

We would further appeal as a just;ification of what you charge on us, dear ladies, as 
a delinquency, to what you may spitefully call old scandal, but which we prefer to class 
as garnered wisdom. First hear the following testimony : 

" Marriage, as old men note, hath likened been. 
Unto a public feast or common rout : 
Where those that are without would fain get in, 
And those that are within would fain get out." 

Take Addison's not very complimentary definition of marriage as " a kind of 
counter-apotheosis or deification inverted." Alas ! for ardent youthful dreams and 
disappointed souls ! Then, in Peter Pindar we read : 

" 'Wedlock''s a saucy, sad, familiar state, 
"Where folks are ver3' apt to scold and hate." 



halter 



The poet Gay assures one of a lively time when he attains " at once the altar and the 



Hudibras tells us of 



"Man likes command and due restriction. 
As well as does woman, contradiction. 
She never slavislily submits ; 
She'll have her will or have her tits." 



" Men who are by themselves employed 
To quit the freedom they enjoyed : 
And run their ijecks into a lioose : 
They'd break 'em after to get loose." 



But, Mr. President, I forbear. I can only say to my fellow-bachelors, in view of 
such testimony, stand firm in your liberty and go forth to conquer every thing but 
woman. 

Mr. President, it might not just here be amiss to call attention to the experience of a 
few of earth's most illustrious men in matrimonial adventure. 

-^nd first MiLXON was brought to grief by the institution. His godlike muse 

from soaring above the Aeonian mount, was forced to descend to the dull pages of a 
tome on divorce. Dante's sublime genius, all know, was dragged down to the^infernal 
regions. Byron had a precious time, as the ladies say ; while' poor Shelley, when a 
mere boy, was led to marry at once a woman and misery. Montaigne once declared 
that he " wouldn't marry a second time, if it were wisdom's self so to do." Then we 
have Dr. Johnson, the subject of wifely witchcraft, wellnigh given over to posterity, 



THE DECENNIAL. 43 

despite his giaut mind, as the world's huighiiig stock and next to the prince of fools. 
While Shakspeare, the master of all sentiment, having been inveigled in the matrimoniul 
snare in early yonth, is compelled to sit before the world in the gay pictnre of writing 

" Romeo and Juliet," under the broomstick of a woman eight years his senior ! 

But, Mr. President, we are not yet done. We cite in our behalf the experience of 
antiquity. And stopping short of what Adam said to himself just outside of Eden, we 
submit that the question was put to the famous Diogenes of Sinope, "when ought a 
young man to marry ?" Now, Sir Walter Raleigh says, " Toward thirty." Thack- 
eray advises, " Forty times over let Michaelmas pass." But the philosopher re- 
plied, " Young men ought not to marry yet, and old men ought never to marry." 

Aristotle tells us that when Socrates was asked by a friend whether he would 
advise him to marry, his answer was, " whichever you do, you will repent it." .... 
True, Socrates married Mrs. Xantippe. But, sir, this but proves the e.\tent to which 
his philosophy carried him. He took her simply as a disciplinary measure. For being 
a philosopher, he thought as a philosopher, he spake as a philosopher, he acted as a 
philosopher. He aimed at extraordinary attainments, and, as a means to an end, was 
willing to subject himself to extraordinaiy discipline. Ilis habit was to explain his 
marriage by saying, " After marrying Xantippe, I can easily live with any one else 

whomsoever." To the protest of his friend Alcibiades against the abusive 

temper of Mrs. Socrates, .... he replied : "But I am used to it, just as I should be if I 

were always hearing the noise of a pulley." In the aforesaid reply he confesses 

his repentance So that the tale about his having on one occasion delivered a 

discourse on " Love " with such effect on his auditors as that " all the bachelors took a 
resolution forthwith to marry and all the married men took horse and hastened home 
to their wives," is probably either a calumny upon the great name of that great man, 
or else he was but putting his old enemies, the Soj)hists, to an open shame, by making 
the worse appear the better reason. In passing, it may be well enough to add that 
"the demon," which was wont to attend Socrates, is now generally underst(^d to have 
been his wife. 

But it is contended, that marriage is a condition necessary to man's highest de- 
velopment. To this, we defiantly advance the counter-proposition, that the great lights 
in literature, science, and philosophy, in ancient and modern times, have for the most 
part eschewed the wedded state; or, as we, have seen, found it a burden grievous to 
be borne. And here we beg, sir, to offer first the testimony of no other than Lord 
Bacon. He affirms that, " Mankind is indebted to the unmarried and cliildless for its 
highest benefactions in the world of science and song." " They are," he adds, " the 
best friends, the best masters, the best servants." 

Plato, who reasoned so well, was a bachelor. 

In behalf of science, time forbids that we present more than the names of Xewton 
— who walked in the trackless sky ; Locke, who pursued the devious paths of the human 
understanding, and Leibnitz profound ; besides Hobbes and Bayle, and Jonson, and 
Adam Smith, among many more, all in our support. In the department of Song, we 
take you to " Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain," or sing : 

" Turn, gentle hermit of the dale," — 

and tell you that Goldsmith was a bachelor. 

Gray's "Elegy" came, with all its tender pathos, from the soul, dear ladies, of a soul- 
less bachelor. So did plaintive Shenstone's song. And Cohins with his " Ode to the 
Passions," and " Dirge in Cymbeline." 

I will repeat to the infidel in mind, the touching description of the swain's death, 
in Thompson's " Winter Scene." 

" In vain his little children peeping out 
Into the uainsling storm demand their sire, 
"With tears of anIeFS innocence ; Alas! 
Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, 
Nor friend, nor sacred home." 

The author of this refined domestic sentiment had neither wife nor children. He 
was a " homeless bachelor." 

But to hasten. In the classic literature of France, the names of Corneille, Racine 
and Boileau appear as poetical old bachelors. 

In history, Hume and Gibbon ; and our own Washington Irving was a bachelor 
through all his blameless life. 

While in the Church, passing by all the monks and priests of the Christian era, wo 
will only mention St. Paul, whose utterance "Not to marry is better," is on lasting rec- 



44 THE DECENNIAL. 

ord ; St. Jerome who thought the character of Christian and husband woukl not com- 
bine, and St. Cyprian, who anathematized Love " as the devil's bird-lime to cuslave men 
with — the siren who has beguiled men from St. Anthony to St. Kevin." 

Nor must we here omit the mention of that honored living authority "the best 
loved man in the two hemispheres," who believes and says and practises that College 
President and husband are incompatible. — Let love and honor ever surround the name 
of John Maclean. 

Fellow-bachelors, what need for other names, or further illustrative examples! It 
only remains for us, in conclusion, to rejoice and be exceeding glad that our lines 
have been cast in pleasant places, that v/e live in an age of light, and, especially, in a 
land of liberty and in no such country as barbarous Lacedaamon for example. There 
a time was fixed by law for men to marry and if they failed, our unoffending class be- 
came liable to prosecutions ; for the wrong of letting people alone, they were exclnded 
from all offices of trust ; wer^e stripped, and jjaraded in the market place to be laughed 
at ; they were made to sing songs in their own derision, and were thrashed by the 
women if refractory. And it is not remarkable that no one of the luckless fellows even 
got through without being pronounced refractory. Plutarch narrates, that in addition to 
all this, Lycurgiis, to further encourage marriage, set "certain marks of infamy on 
those wdio continued old bachelors." The marks, by the way, are supposed to have been 
the brand of a heart on the left breast, and a cipher in the forehead. Truly, it might 
have been said in that day, " The calamities of unhappy Greece are not only great but 
without a parallel." 

Moreover, history tells us, that our persecuted fraternity were made the subject of 
constitutional legislation by the Eomans, that the Censors frequently imposed fines on 
bachelors; that the Jewish Rabbins at onetime got after them, and marvellous enough, 
as late as Anno Domini 1695, a tax of a shilling a head was imposed on all bachelors in 
England. We may well felicitate ourselves and congratulate each other that we, of 
'59, have not fallen upon these evil times, nor they upon us. We exult that we are 
tree — free from laws; free from cares; free from babies to molest us, and free from 
wives to make us afraid. 

And uovv, married classmates, in bidding you adieu with sympathetic regrets, we do 
sincerely wish you well, but, it must be said, expect for ourselves better — though not 
claiming for our condition superiority to every earthly ill. 

"True, sometimes we think of our lonely deatlibed. 
Of our grave over whicli not a tear may be shed ; 
Tliat nobody misses liim, nobody siirlis, 
>iobody grieves wlien the bachelor dies. 
But ouglit it to ease our last moments to know, 
That the hearts we love dearest are bursting with woe ? 
Thougli our needle we've frequently got to essay, 
When buttons from coats or from sliirts fall away ; 
Though our bed be ill-made, and our shirts be not aired, 
Our kerchiefs uuhemmed and our stockings unpaired; 
Yet to bear ills we have it is better to try, 
Than to others of wliicli we know nothing to fly. 
And to jUDip from the frying-pan into the Are 
Is a feat to perform we feel no desire." 

Then come, join me, fellow-bachelors, in glorious and final acclaim : 

"From equalling, from squeaking, from scolding I'm free ; 
Oh, a clever young bachelors life for me " 

until — until, sweet ladies, gentle ladies, charming ladies, forgiving ladies — until, and 
only until, I can persuade some sweet, charming, gentle, forffiving lady, to be my wife. 

At the coneltision of Lj'on's address, which was about Ik o'clock in the 
morning, the interested audience was dismissed and the class at once pro- 
ceeded to the supper-room, where a magnificent banquet awaited their ar- 
rival. Mr. Teneyck, of New York, was the caterer and no pains or ex- 
pense had been spared to satisfy our expectations. It was really a superb 
entertainment. The tables were not only loaded with every thing tempting 
to the appetite that could be procured in two hemispheres, but were taste- 
fully decorated. The President was seated at the head of the table, sup- 
ported on his right by the Secretary, and on his left by Colwell. 



THE DECENNIAL. ' 45 

None but members of the class had been invited, as it was the intention 
to reserve this social gathering exclusively to ourselves. 

A pleasant episode, however, occurred in the progress of the supper 
which deserves to be mentioned. The '• Nassau Singing Club " very 
thoughtfully and kindly tendered us a complimentary serenade. They, of 
course, did not have to sing outside very long. They were escorted into 
the room by a committee appointed for the purpose, and after being duly 
received with full honors, proceeded to sing inside. Fearing that they were 
occupying too much of our attention, they then retired with tlie thanks of 
the class for their courtesy. We record it as a hopeful sign of better days 
to come, when there shall be not only an interest felt in one's own class, 
but when close relations of friendship and the utmost good feeling shall ex- 
ist between classes. It delighted us to be so cordially v/eleomed home by 
the college boys. 

After supper the following toasts were given. First of all, of course, 
was our " Our Alma Mater ; " next, " The American Whig and Cliosophic 
Societies," and then " Our two Presidents — McCosh and Maclean" — all 
three of which were received with the usual honors. Then followed the reg- 
ular toast of the occasion, " The Class of 1859," responded to by Reese. 
Then G-REEN responded for " Our non-graduate members." These toasts 
were followed by " The Wives of '59," Hodge responding ; " Our Boy," 
responded to by A. Lyon; " Our Clergy," by Kennedy ; " Our^awyers," 
by Weidman; " Our Physicians," by Magie ; " Our Business Men," by 
Ketcham; "Our Secretary," by the said individual; and last, "Our 
Dead," by Stump. Stump merely rose in response, and said that he felt 
utterly inadequate to do justice to the memory of the departed, but never- 
theless believed that the better way to honor them was to drink the toast 
in silence, which was accordingly done, all standing. 

We had hoped to be able to present at least one of the pleasant speeches 
made on this occasion. We refer to Pveose's response to the toast to the 
" class." It was unwritten and delivered with no expectation of being de- 
sired for publication. It was almost entirely unpremeditated. The orator 
uttered what was in his heart. But the speech was so beautiful and chaste 
in expression and rich in thought and full of feeling, that a universal re- 
quest was made that it be recalted and printed, to be read by us all. The 
orator most kindly consented to do so, but has found it impossible to repro- 
duce it as uttered. We are sorry that a single one missed the singularly 
felicitous and tastei'ul manner with which it was spoken, but we are still 
more sorry that a single member of the class missed the speech. In his 
apology for not sending the address for insertion here, Reese writes Sept. 
29, 18(39 : 

" T promised to send it last week and failed to do so only because I found, after re- 
peated trials, that it was impossible to fulfil my promise. To tell you the simple truth, 
I cannot for the life of me recall what it was I really did say to the fellows on the 29th 
of June. I spoke so entirely from the impulse of the moment and consequently so en- 
tirely without order or arrangement and my words were so prompted by the peculiar 
nature of the occasion and its surroundings, that 1 do not think it in my power to re- 
produce my remarks, unless the whole scene could be repeated, and that, alas, can 
never be. If I were to sit down and in cold blood write off a speech, it would not be honest 
to palm it off as a bona-fide supper speech. It would, besides being unfau-, be as flatas 
the champagne which you and Hodge had at the seminary would be now, if all the in- 
tervening time it had been uncorked," &c., &c., «S:c. 

And so the last toast drunken, our " class supper " came to an end and 
at nearer four than three in the morning we proceeded to our rooms to get 



46 THE DECENNIAL, 

a little rest. Quite a number of us had secured lodgings in the new semi- 
nary building and accordingly went thither. It so happened that the 
" class of 1866 " were observing their Triennial in the Seminary Refec- 
tory and were not yet through their supper when wo arrived at the build- 
ing. We had our President and Secretary with us — our class of&cers — so 
we felt that we could act in the name of the class. Accordingly, surround- 
ing an open window, at the signal of our President, we gave a thi-ee times 
three for " the class of 1866," with the " salutations of the ' class of 1859.' " 
The sequel cannot be described adequately. Our greeting was most vigor- 
ously returned, and we almost carried in, and there treated with the most 
generous hospitality. Their Class-President, in a few eloquent words, ad- 
dressed lis, welcoming ns most heartily ; whereupon Cole responded in a 
style which but increased the general enthusiasm. It was an address full 
of gratitude, full of congratulation, full of warm feeling. Hodge also was 
called on and did his best as he always does. Thinking we had interrupted 
them long enough, and seeing that Aurora was already heralding the morn, 
we retired, feeling that we had had one of the pleasantest litt le episodesof 
our whole meeting. We gave nine rousing cheers for the class of' 1866 as 
we retired, which were responded to with a will by another nine for our- 
selves, and then we turned into our couches and dreamed dreams. They 
were all about the college and the class and the supper and the class o"f 

1866, and then the class again, &c., &c., &c We met in purely 

business session at lOi- on Wednesday (see " Minutes of Class-Meetings") 
and went to the church in a body to see Cole and A. Lyon and T. Lyon 
take their Master's Degree, and then some went to the Alumni dinner, 
where Cole was called on to speak for the class, and others wens in other 
directions ; most of us went home, and at length nothing wa tleft of our 
Decennial meeting but the remembrance of it. 



4:7 



§ i s t or t c a 1 S k e t c I) c s . 



T. GRADUATES. 

II. NON-GRADUATES. 



I. G^RADUATE MEMBERS. 



GrsoKGE Crawford Bsekman (F. C. S.) [Boom, 31 W. C], 

was born in Middletown, N. J., on July 2, 1839, the son of a Presbyterian 
minister. He joined the Freshman Class of Princeton in 1855, and gra- 
duated with the class of 1859. 

He was in the " Fourth Division " of Senior Speaking and took for his 
theme " Dr. Kane." 

After graduating he studied law and was admitted to the bar June 4, 
1863. He settled in Freehold, N. J., where he still resides. HeJias just 
been made a judge, though his precise official position has not been re- 
ported. 

Since graduation he has grown fleshy, but enjoys excellent health. 
He has connected himself with the Methodist Church. He received his 
degree of A. M. in course, in 1862. 



Anderson Lalor Brearley (F. A. W. S.) [Eoom, 37 N.], 

was born in Trenton, N. J., Jan. 6. 1840. He was prepared for college 
at the Trenton Academy. He joined our class in the Sophomore year, 
and graduated with us in 1859. He was in the " Second Division " of 
Senior Speaking, and took for his theme " Character." His commencement 
speech was on " Policy and Priacipla." For a few months after gradua- 
tion he studied law, but soon determined to become a merchant. He settled 
in Trenton, where he still resides, and is a '' Manufacturer of Agricultural 
Implements." 

He was married, Jan. 24, 1861, to Miss Anna D. Gardiner, of Wrights- 
ville, N. J., by whom he has had four children. The first, born Oct. 22, 
1862, unfortunately died the same day. The others are Florence, born 
Nov. 8, 1863; Richard Gardiner, bora Oct. 1, 1866 ; and Miriam, born 
Jan. 21, 18t>9. His son Richard died Sept. 7, 1869. 

Brearley connected himself with the Presbyterian Church in Trenton 
before enterino- college. He received his degree of A. M. m course, in 
1862. 

Ira Percy Clark (F. A. W. S.) {Room, 24 W.], 

was born in Geneseo, N. Y., Aug. 23, 1837. He was prepared for Col- 
lege at Temple Hill Academy, Geneseo, and entered the original Fresh 
class of 19 members. He was one of the Editors of the Nassau Literary 
Magazine (April, 1859.) He was in the " Second Division " of Senior 
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50 SKETCHES. 

Speakiug. and took for bis theme, " War, a Purifier." , His Commence- 
ment Speech was on '' War." 

After graduation he went to Troy, Obion Co., Tenn., as a teacher. 
There he has made his home. His occupation was changed for soldiering 
during the war, but resumed after the war until admitted to the bar. He 
studied for his profession with a lawyer of Troy, and was admitted to 
practice Nov. 21, 1866. In July, 1867, he formed a partnership, under 
the name of " Howard & Clark." During the war, he espoused the South- 
ern cause. He was a private in the Ninth Tennessee, and participated in 
the battle of Shiloh. Bad health soon compelled him to accept the posi- 
tion of Commissary Sergeant of the regiment. Subsequently he was as- 
signed to the brigade office as Commissary Clerk. The characteristic ex- 
tracts which follow, taken from two letters, will be read with interest : 

I can assure you that, amid trials and disappointments — in sickness and in health — 
on battle-field and in the bivouac — when v.-orn and exhausted in my efforts to infuse an 
ambition into the minds of my pupils to be and do something, I have ever turned with re- 
newed interest to the ibrmer days and the familiar faces of classmates, remembered as 
distinctly as of old. I have longed to feel the warm grasp of their hand and look into 
their faces, ever young to me, and grow young myself under the kindly influences of 
their companionship. Cossitt and T. G. Lyon are the only members of our class I have 
had the pleasure of meeting, and these meetings were only hurried interviews amid the 

bustle and confusion of the war I suffered very 

much during the first eighteen months of my life here with chills and fever — was raised 
up from the borders of the grave, only to drag out a five years' course of chronic dis- 
ease. I was four years in the war — never missed a march, never went to a hospital, 
was never wounded, never stole any thing, had my views of human nature elevated. I 
have now regained my health and feel that if God spares my life a few years longer, I 
may be able to put my finger on some good act peribrmed in His name for the benefit 
of my fellows." — [Letter of September 29, 1868]. 

Enclosed please find a 'carte,' taken while North, about a year since. It is very 
much like the animal in his natural state — so like, that I am very sensitive on the point 
of public inspection. I am anxious, however, to serve the cause of science, and if this 
' vestige of a falling, crumbling tower' can be of any service, you are welcome to it. 

. . . . . . . All my college keepsakes and remembrancers were taken from 

me during the war. My class autograph book was thrown into the street, and badly- 
disfigured, but I have it still. I regard, therefore, very highly every bit of drift-wood 
floating tov.'ard me from the wreck (?) of '59, and lay them up as precious relics of • 

happy days and so I sit, a silent watcher by the sea, and wait 

patiently for what the kind winds may waft to me This is 

a dull, Sleepy-Hollow sort of a town, but just the kind of a place for study. It is so 
quiet; and there is nothing to take one's attention from his studios, unless it be want of 

books I have been kindly treated here and love this psople, and t'nis 

•may throw a rosy tint over what is barren of interest to others." — \_Letier of October 
13, 18G8]. 

Clark was married to Miss Hattie M. Maxwell on January 13, 1869. 

Be connected himself witli the Presbyterian Church before entering 
college, but now attends the Episcopal Church, when he is where there is 
one. In Troy, he divides his time between the " Cumberland" and the 
" Reformed " Presbj- terians. 



John William Cleveland (F. C. S.) [^Room, Mr. Mount's], 

was born in Washington, Greorgia, February 29, 1840. 

He entered our class in the Junior year, and graduated with us in 
1859. 

After graduation, he read law in Atlanta, Ga.,and had scarcely entered 



SKETCHES. 51 

on the practice of the profession when the war drew him iuto the ranks of 
the Southern army. 

Surviving the war, he first found a resting-place in New Orleans ; 
afterward at Fort Jessup, La. 

The Secretary saw Cleveland in New York City, just after the close of 
the war. 

As to Cleveland's present address, the Secretary remains uninformed. 
In a letter dated March 12, 1869, he says : 

I shall be out of this State (La.) aftei- this month, and shall malie my permanent 
residence in another State. 

Cleveland was in the "Fourth Division" of Senior Speaking, and spoke 
on "The Fall of Poland." 



Hugh Laing Cole (F. C. S.) [Room, 16 W.], 

was born in Newborn, N. C. May 21, 1838. He was prepared for col- 
lege at Wentworth, N. C. He was first matriculated at the University of 
North Carolina in 1855, and while there took honors. The death of a 
classmate under peculiarly sad circumstances, caused the University to be- 
come most irksome to him and at the end of the Freshman year ^e left and 
came to Princeton. He joined our class in the Sophomore year, and 
graduated with us in '59. 

During his College course, he took a very active part in class matters, 
and at our meeting in 1859 (Class Day), was elected Permanent Class 
President. 

After graduation, he at once commenced the study of law, under Chief 
Justice Pierson, of North Carolina, and was admitted to the Bar in 
June, 1860. At the outbreak of the war, he joined the Southern army, 
receiving the appointment of Captain in the Second N. C. Infantry. He 
served with his command until after the " Seven Days' " fight around 
Richmond, and then, broken down by fever, and incapacitated for infantry 
duty, he was assigned to a position on Gen. (x. B. Anderson's stafi". After 
the battle of Antietam, he resigned his commission, and returned to North 
Carolina to recruit his health. A few months afterward, he was appointed 
Captain in the Provisional Array, and assigned to duty as Assistant-Ad- 
jutant-General in the Enrolling Service, stationed at Raleigh. In this 
service he remained (with the exception of one campaign as commander of 
a cavalry company) until January, 1864, when he was appointed in the 
Corps of Engineers, and soon after assigned to duty on the staff of Gen. 
Braxton Bragg. He served in this capacity from the battle of Kinstontill 
the last remnant of the army was disbanded at Washington, Ga. [Cleve- 
land's home], on May 4, 1885, being one of the escort of Jefferson Davis till 
a few days before his capture. He participated in some of the hardest cam- 
paigns of the war. 

Cole lost both his parents during the war — his mother, while he was ill 
in the army, and his father somewhat later, within the Federal lines, where 
he could not reach him. He received the tidings of the first bereavement 
by telegraph, and of the second from the columns of a newspaper. 

He was married, October 9, 1867, to Miss Susie Tarleton, of Mobile, 
Alabama (sister of our lamented classmate), but was permitted to enjoy 
her companionship and sympathy for only a brief period. The Secretary 



52 SKETCHES. 

feels it to be proper to allow a classmate to tell of so great a sorrow in Lis 
own words : 

" On June 30, 1868 (he writes), it pleased Almighty God to take her to Himself. Her 
death was most sudden, and totally unlocked for liy us all. At tea time she was well, 
and before morning she was gone. Even I had not one poor minute's warning of the 
catastrophe — the sad cry that awakened me out of sleep being the last articulate sound 

she ever uttered I write this to you that you may tell such of the 

old college set as you may think will be interested to hear of my terrible blow. As I 
first met her at old Princeton, I feel that no one of my college friends can fail to sorrow 
with mey— [Letter of July 27, 1868]. 

There appeared in the Mobile Daily E'^gider of July 7, 1868, the fol- 
lowing memorial lines, signed " li." It is not known for certain, but 
there are many grounds, independent of the signature, for believing that 
they were written by Takleton : 

IN MEMORIAM. 
Susan Cole— obiit June 30, 1868. 

How beautiful must Heaven be this morn. 
And ah ! how desolate for us is earth — 
For us who knew the rareness of her worth — 

For us who, sad with grief, are all fbrlorii. 

A little while, and she was animate ; 

A little while, and she is Death's pale bride ; 

A little while, and, holy, sanctified. 
She stands before God's throne immaculate. 

Alas ! for she is gone, but like the shower 
That weeps itself away upon the flower ; 

Aye ! gone ; but only as a lovely star 
That fades into the heaven — or a tune 
Born of the exquisite melody of June, 

That faints away and fades afar — afar! 

Cole was confirmed by Bishop Atkinson, of N. C, on Trinity Sunday of 
1863. He was Superintendent of the Sunday School of Christ Church 
Mobile, where until now he has been settled, and engaged in the practice 
of ISw, under the firm name of "G-randin & Cole." 

In a letter dated Nov. 28, 1868, he writes : 

"I am taking more serious views of this poor life of ours than when I defied the dons 
and shocked the sensibilities of the old women of both sexes at Princeton." 

In a letter dated Jan. 1869, among many other good things, he refers 
to the philosophizing spirit of the times in regard to religious beliefs with 
becoming reprobation. The Secretary cannot forbear quoting a few sen- 
tences : 

The refinements and niceties of theology as a science, seem to me more than any 
other thing to milicate against the simplicity, beauty, and truth of the grand old faith 
once delivered to the saints. I do not see how any man cmi appreciate or even appre- 
hend the scheme of our Salvation, until he has broken in pieces the mummv case and 
cut the cords and shackles which the schoolmen have so laboriously wound around 

it. I firmly believe that all the different bodies of Christian's in the land are 

yearning for a return to the pure, evangelical truth whieh is too mighty to need doctor- 
ing and too simple to form the proper basis for any ology whatever. 

Cole's monogram is : " Deum cole. Regem serva." 



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He received his second degree (A, M.) at the late commencement 
(1869.) 

He has left Mobile and settled in New York City, where he now resides. 
His office is 59 Wall street. 

Samuel Richards Colwell (F. A. W. S.) [^Room, Mr. McVeigh's], 

was born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 24, 1839. He was prepared for col- 
lege at the Presbyterian academy at that time under the charge of Rev. Dr. 
Coleman. He was examined for admission to college in the summer of 
1856, but previous to entering on his studies, travelled for a year with Dr. 
Coleman through Europe and the East. Raturning home, he joined our 
class in its Junior Year and graduated with us in 1859. 

He graduated with the English Salutatory. 

He belonged to the •' Fourth Division " of Senior Speaking and pre- 
pared an essay on " A Test of Government," but, at his own request, he 
was excused from speaking. 

After graduation he took a short trip to Europe. On his return he 
studied law and completed the course in the University of Penn. ; al- 
though ill-health interrupted his studies. 

He entered the army in the Summer of 1862. He was an ' aid ' to 
General Bayard, and after his death, appointed aid on Gener^ Gregg's 
Staff. He was at General Bayard's side when he was killed, the shot 
■which shattered his thigh passing Avithin a foot of Colwell. He was pres- 
ent in only one general engagement (the first battle of Fredericksburg). 
He remained in the army until ill-health compelled him to leave the ser- 
vice (April 1863). 

He has now in a measure recovered his health, though he himself 
styles it as " indifferent." He is managing a large tract of land called 
the ' Weymouth Tract.' The business consists mainly in lumber, charcoal, 
etc., also a paper mill and flour mill. The business is done in the name 
of ' The Weymouth Works.' 

[Weymouth is in New Jersey, on the line of railroad to Atlantic City.] 

Colwell took his A. M. in course in 1862. 

He was married May 19, 1869, to Miss A. M. Richards, of Philadel- 
phia. 

Robert Aaron Condit (F. A. W. S.) [lioom, 27 N.], 

was born in Oswego, New York, May 19, 1837. He was one of the ori- 
ginal nineteen members of the Freshman class and graduated with us in 
1859. He belonged to the " Second Division" in Senior speaking and 
chose for his theme, " Great Thinkers." The subject of his commence- 
ment oration was " Great Men." 

After graduation, he began the study of law in Judge Churchill's 
office in Oswego ; but after the death of his mother relinquished these 
studies and commenced the study of Theology. 

He studied for one year at Chicago and for two years at Princeton. 
During this period, he filled the position of Tutor of Latin in the College. 
His father once occupied a similar position at the time of the Great Re- 
bellion, as it was called, in the early part of the century. 

Condit was licensed to preach in April 1863. For some time he 
assisted his father in Oswego. At length he was installed Pastor of the 



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Westminster Church of Minneapolis, Minn., June, 1866. This charge he 
resigned, because of poor health, in January, 1868. and during March fol- 
lowing, left the country on a visit to his missionary sisters in Sidon, Syria. 
He has just returned (June 1869) and appears to be in better health. 

Condit was a professor of religion when he entered college. He took 
his degree of A. M. in course in 1862. 

William Artiiuk Conover (F. C. S.) [Room, Mrs. Forman's], 

was born in Freehold, New Jersey, October 3, 1839. He was prepared for 
college at the " Freehold Institute." He entered the Sophomore Class in 
Princeton and graduated with us in 1859. 

He was in the " Second Division " of Senior Speaking and chose for 
his theme " Incentives to Study." He took the same theme for his com- 
mencement oration. 

After graduation, he studied Medicine and graduated (March 1862) 
from the " College of Physicians and Surgeons " of New York City. 

The same year he took his degree of A. M. in course honx Princeton. 

He entered the army and served as Surgeon all through the war. 
Served in Department of Washington until May 1863 ; promoted Surgeon 
May 8, 1863. Was with the 10th Corps and participated in numerous 
battles North and South of the James and in front of Petersburg; was at 
the battle of Drury's Bluff, the explosion of the mine and the bombard- 
ment of Fort Fisher and entered Richmond with tbe army. Served in 
the Department of Virginia and North Carolina until August 1865. Ac- 
companied 25th Army Corps to Texas as Medical Director with rank of 
Lieut. Colonel ; served in Department of Texas until mustered out, March 
13, 1866. Brevet Colonel, to date from November 24, 1865. 

It will interest us all to know that Zabkiskie was attended in his dying 
moments by his classmate Conover to whose lot it fell, under a kind Pro- 
vidence, to dress the fatal wound. 

Since the war, Conover has been residing in Newark, New Jersey, and 
is now at the head of the principal drug store in that place. 

John Cornell (F. A. W. S.) [Room, Mr. McMahon's], 

was born-in New York City, June 11, 1839. He joined our class in its 
Sophomore year and graduated with us in 1859. He took his A. M. in 
course in 1862. 

Cornell was in the " First Division " of Senior speaking and spoke on 
" Knowledge of the Future." His commencement oration was on " The 
Philosophy of the Ancients." 

After graduating, he studied Civil Engineering and assisted in survey- 
ing several railroads in New Jersey. Relinquishing his purpose of becom- 
ing a Civil Engineer, he studied for three years in the General Theologi- 
cal Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York City. He 
was ordained Deacon July 30, 1863. 

He has had two charges, first as Associated Rector at Rhinebeck, 
New York, then at Ravenswood, New York. This latter position he re- 
tained for about three years. He resigned on account of bad health, and 
took a sixteen months' trip to Europe and the East. 

On his return to America, he remained for three months in New 



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llochelle, New York, declining two calls to pastorates (one to College 
Point and one to Kiuderbook) and at length accepted an appointment un- 
der Bishop Randall at Laramie City in the Territory of Wyoming. He 
began his labors there November 29, 1868, as a Missionary. Was made 
Rector there February 18. 181)9, a Parish having been organized. The 
corner stone of a church edifice was laid May 6, 1869, and the building is 
in process of erection. 

Laramie is situated on the Union Pacific Kailroad and has about 2,000 
inhabitants. It has had quite an unenviable reputation for crime hereto- 
fore, but a writer in the " New York Olserver''^ for September 2, 18G9, 
says : 

"A more orderly or absolutely quiet town I never saw on a Sunday." The writer 
is one of the Editors of the Observer, — Dr. E. D. G. Prime, and he refers in his letter 
to the preaching in Laramie City. He writes : " I lenrned that the only religious 
service for preaching Ti^as to be held by an Episcopal missionary, Rev. Mr. Cornell, who 
has been stationed here for several montlisand who is devoting himself laboriously to 
the work of building up a church. . . . Sunday morning came. Our party, all Presby- 
terians, attended the Episcopal Sabbath School and the Episcopal service, some of them 
being invited to address the School and another to close the exercises with prayer. We 
heard from the Rev. Mr. Cornell an excellent sermon on the grace and duty of humility." 

James Craig (F. A. W. S.) [Boom, 27 E.], 

was born in Baltimore, Maryland, Pebruary 22. 1841. 

He joined our class in its Junior Year and graduated with us in 1859. 
He was in the " First Division " of Senior Speaking, his theme being 
" John Randolph." His commencement oration was on " Tiberius Grac- 
chus." 

He took his second degree in course in 1862. 

In 1860, he studied law in the office of J. Mason Campbell, Esq.,of Bal- 
timore. In 1861, he relinquished law for medicine, studying two years in 
Baltimore, the year 1863 in Heidelberg, Germany; the year 1864 in 
Paris. In 1865 returning home, he became an Engineer and a Contractor 
for the " Mexico and Vera Cruz Railroad ". In Aug;ist 1866, he re- 
turned to Baltimore and spent the following winter in Florida. In 1867, be 
became a planter, and is now settled on a cotton plantation in Bolivar 
County, MississiJDpi. 

He was married January 11, 1866, to Miss Carrie Matthews, of Geor- 
gia, and has a little girl who was born September 5, 1867. 

In a letter dated June 30, 1868, he writes : — 

I still go on by my old rule, 

" Aeqnam memento rebus in arduis, 
Scrvare meutera, non secus in bonis." 

Sussex Delaware Davis (F. C. S.) [Boom 12, N.], 

was born at Delamore Place, near Wilmington, Del., Dec. 30, 1838. 
He joined the class ia its Sophomore year, and graduated with us in 
1859. He was the Editor of the " Nassau Literary Magazine" for May, 
1859. He was in the "Third Division" of Senior Speaking, taking for 
bis theme the " Fate of the Moor." His commencement oration was on 
" States and Statesmen " 



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After graduation he studied Law, and was admitted to the bar in Jan- 
uary, 1862. He is settled in Philadelphia, Pa. 

He took his second degree (A. M.) in coicrse in 1862. 

His brother, (Kent Delaware D.,) class of '61, distinguished himself in 
the war, but died during its progress (Jan., 1864.) 

James Newton Dickson (F. A. W. S.) [Itootn, Mr. McVeigh's], 

was born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 14, 1839. He was prepared for Col" 
lege at the Presbyterian Academy, of which Rev. Dr. Coleman was prin- 
cipal ; also at Edge Hill School, Princeton. He joined our class in its 
Sophomore year, and graduated with us in '59. He was in the " Fourth 
Division " of Senior Speaking, and selected as his theme " Kr-^/xa es dei." 
His commencement speech was on " The Nation's Best Monuments." 

After graduating he became a clerk in a Philadelphia importing 
house. At the outbreak of the war (1861) he became a corporal in the 
Philadelphia " Commonwealth Artillery." A short time after he became 
a lieutenant, then a captain in the 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry (Rush's 
Lancers). He also received a commission as lieutenant in 3d U. S. 
Artillery. 

He Avas with the regiment through the whole of the Peninsular cam- 
paign (under Gen. McClellan), and in every battle from Yorktown to the 
evacuation of Harrison's Bar ; then at South Mountain, Antietam, First 
Fredericksburg, Stoneman'a Cavalry raid and Gettysburg ; then followed 
the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac in their marches, scouts, &c. 
In the famous Stoneman's raid he took prisoner a captain of a Miss, regi- 
ment, of which A. Lyon was surgeon 

He took his second degree (A. M.) in course in 1862. 

He was married April 22, 1868, to Miss Minnie Allen, of New York 
City. The papers described this wedding as " one of the most recherche 
affairs of the season." 

Dickson now resides in Philadelphia, and is engaged in the real estate 
business. 

Charles Hammond Dougal (F. C. S.) [lioom, 15 W.], 

was born in Milton, Pa., Sept. 20, 1838. He joined our class in its Sopho- 
more year, and graduated with us in '59. 

He was in the " Third Division" of Senior Speaking, and took for his 
theme " Modern Patriotism." 

After graduating he entered on the study of Medicine^ first at home and 
afterward at the University of Pennsylvania, where he took his degree, 
March, 1864. 

He was in the army for one year as a medical cadet, and during the 
Pennsylvania invasion was captain in the Pennsylvania 28th. 

He settled in Milton, Pa., where he still resides. 

He was married Jan. 4, 1866, to Miss Annie M. Oakes. 

In a letter dated May 30, 1869, he writes : 

_"I must confess time has dealt kindly with me since leaving college. I have had no 
Berious illness and received no injury. With the exception of alittle more responsibility 
incident to business, I feel as young and enjoy life as much as I did ten years ago." 



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Robert Edgar (F. C. S.) [Room, 17 W.], 

was born in the nortli of Ireland, July 31, 1833. He received his pre- 
paration for college in Lansingburgh, N. Y. He joined our class in its 
Sophomore year, and graduated with us in '59. 

During his college course he prepared and published a " History of the 
College of New Jersey." It was in pamphlet form, and had an extensive 
circulation among the friends of the Institution. The "Parting Ode" 
sung on our " Class day " was written by Edgar. He was in the " Second 
Division " of Senior Speaking, and took for his subject " Natura non oper- 
atur per saltum." His commencement oration was on " Ilespousibillties 
of Scholars." 

He had come to college with the ministry in view, (he professed faith 
in Christ in Spring of 1853), and immediately after graduation began the 
study of Theology in Princeton Seminary, where he remained the usual 
time. He was the first of the class who was licensed to preach the 
gospel (Jan. 15, 1861). 

As to pastoral settlement, he writes : 

" I have been a Domestic Missionary most of the time since leaving the Seminary, and 
therefore have not been sMled anywhere. . . . For the transitions I cannot say 
like the patriarch that they have been 'few and evil.' They have not been 'few,' 
though as to the 'evil,' I have had enough of it. I went to Lake George, Juno, 1862 ; 
since then I have been at Swartswood, N. J.; Nicholson, Pa.; Union, I%Y., and, 
from July, 1867, at East Toledo, Ohio. The church here is a colony from the First of 
Toledo. I have also a church about 30 miles distant, which is more encouraging. 
Additions during the year in this field have been made to the number of 20. Kenyon 
is at Elyria, just east of me." — \_Leltcr of July, 1868]. . . . 

He took his second degree (A. M.) in course in 1862. 

He was married Nov. 3, 1864, to Miss Jennie Boozer, of Burlington, 
N. J. He has had two children : Chester, born Sept. 15, 1865, and Emma 
Kirkpatrick, born Jan. 23, 1867. 

John Witten Frierson* (F. A. W. S.) [Hoom, 4 Refectory], 

was born near Benton, Ala., Aug. 12, 1838. At an early age he removed 
with his father to Louisiana (De Soto Parish). 

"Ho was ever a lovely youth. From childhood up he was most amiable. From boy- 
hood he evinced thai taste for literature, science, and music which lasted him to the 
grave. Like Samuel, the Spirit of God seemed to have controlled him from his birth ; 
and since renewed by grace at Princeton, his course was unifoimly consistent." 



H 

with us 



e joined our class at the outset of the Freshman year, and graduated 

IS in 1859. He was in the " Third Division " of Senior Speaking, and 

took for his subject " The Brennus and Camillus of Catholicism." His 
commencement oration was on " Patriotism, the Guiding Star to Fame." 

After graduation, he studied in Messrs. Sentell & PraUier's law-office, 
in New Orleans, and afterward at the University of Louisiana. 

" He had just completed his course of law studies with eminent success, and his 
future was bright with hope, when .... he was called to arms. Among the 
earliest in the field .... he fought in every battle around Richmond ; slightly 
injured at Petersburg, he fell mortally wounded at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. After 

* Deceased. 



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the battle, a friend of the family, Mr. Richardson, of Eichmonci, had his body placed in 

a coffin and interred where he now reposes Once during the contest he 

revisited bis home and found joy an.d honor in the consideriition of a whole community. 
His heart seemed full of love toward his college friends." — [Le'.ter of Ms father, 
Sept. 1865,] 

Sure that his own affection for Frierson is shared by the whole class, 
the secretary feels warranted in giving extracts so, length from one of the 
many letters Frierson's father received from comrades in arms, all bearing 
the same testimony to his character. The letter is from a Mr. David 
Marshall, and dated '■' Camp, near Pisgah Church, Jan. 1-1, 18G4": 

. . . . " As a soldier he was never known tc shrink from duty, and many times. 
when totally unfit on account of ill-health, he would still stand up to the post of duty. 
He was much liked and very much respected by the whole company. Every one ad- 
mired him for his gentle and amiable disposition; but especially as a Christian did he 
attract attention. . . . Never have I heard any one speak of Witten but as a per- 
fect gentleman and true Christian. The whole company lamented his loss, and especial- 
ly by me has it been severely felt. After his return to the army from his visit 
home, he was almost my only associate. I loved him as a brother, and with regard to 
some things I could talk to him more freely than to any other person. ... I firmly 
believe that he is now enjoying the 'rest' of the saints. His favorite portion of Scrip- 
ture was Matt, xi., 28-30. ... He seemed to have a presenfiment that he would 
not survive the war, for he often spoke of never eeeing home again. Two days before 
the battle of Chancellorsville, when we were lying in line of battle at Fredericksburg, 
one of our companions was giving him some directions about the settlement of his 
affairs if he should fall in the coming engagement, when Witten exclaimed that he him- 
self had no expectation of survivi'iig it. " The night before the battle we lay down 
together as usual, but slept very little, as we were exposed to the fire of the eneniv, and 
had to change our position several times during the night. In the morning, Witten 
seemed unwell and spoke very little. He had just finished reading in his Testament 
(which he always carried in his bosom) when .we were ordered forward. After that I 
never heard him speak a word. When we met the enemy, the firing was very heavy, 
and we were ordered to lie down and load; in this position a bullet struck Witten in 
the top of his head, and he fell on his face, uttering only a groan. I called to him, but 
he gave me no answer. He continued to breathe a little lonser, apparently in no pain, 
and in a few minutes after his spirit was with God." 

The following extracts from Frierson's last letter to his mother so 
naturally reveal his deep religious instinct, as well as his strong affection 
for his home, that wc cannot withhold them. The letter is dated March 
17, 1863 (only two months before his fatal wound) and written while " on 
picket, near Ilappahannock River." He was in the 4th Brigade, 2d La. 
Reg't. 

"Thanks be to God, my heart yearns for that better life that knows no ending and 
those joys and peace that Jesus only gives. . . . [He then alludes to the death at 
home of a valued friend and adds] ... to the old soldier of Jesus Christ, what a 
trmmphul change ! Death has intervened only as an incideM in his life. . . . 
Thanks for your faithfulness and yoivr true narradve of the loved scenes and incidents 
of home, . . . what would I not give to be with you all to-day and to romp with 
the little ones. ... My thoughts constantly turn to you all with anxious solicitude, 
. . . continue to detail your home life. I love to hear of vour training vines and 
cherishing flowers. . . . Tell the children to cultivate a fondness for flowers . . 
I rejoice to know that so many of our servants are pious and read their Bibles a,nd are 
churcii members." . . . 

Frierson connected himself with the church while in Princeton — one of 
the fruits of the revival which occurred during the latter half of our Fresh- 
man year. 

By reference to Pollock's record, it will be seen that Pollock was pres- 



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ent at the very same battle (though on the other side) ia which Frierson 
met his death-wound. Could wo know the history of the war, how many 
such coincidences might be discovered ! 

The intelligence of the untimely end of our classmate was received with 
profound sorrow. He was quiet and unobtrusive in his manners and yet 
possessed of a character so frank and open, so amiable and lovely, as to 
ensure the abiding, affectionate regard of all who knew him. [See " Me- 
morials."] 

Ghakles Parker Glover (F. A. W. S.) [Room, 29 N.], 

was born in Trenton, N. J., May 15, 1837. He joined our class in its 
Sophomore year and graduated with us in "59. He was in the " First Divi- 
sion " of Senior Speaking and spoke on " Divine Guidance as seen in His- 
tory." His commencement subject was " Past and Present." Hetaugbt 
school for a year after his graduation and then began the study of Theol- 
ogy in Princeton Seminary. He was licensed to preach, April 22, 1863. 

After his licensure to preach, he acted as Chaplain to the 10th N. J., 
and afterward became connected with tlje N. J. State Agency in Washing- 
ton, D. C, at the same time preaching as opportunity offered, lie was 
ordained an Evangelist, April 25, 186G, and inFebruary, 1868, was settled 
over the Harmony Church in Mount Airy, Carroll Co., Md., wliereie still 
resides. 

He took his second degree (A. M.) in course in 1862. 

Thomas Goldthwaite* (F. A. W. S.) [Room, Mrs. Goldthwaite's], , 

was born in Mobile, Alabama, January 13, 1841. His father, Judge 
Henry Goldthwaite, was of English extraction, and his mother was a Miss 
Eliza Witherspoon, from the branch of that family which settled in South 
Carolina, and related to the President Witherspoon of Princeton. 

Goldthwaite's early training was gotten at home schools. At the age 
of thirteen, he was taken North and placed at Edge Hill, Princeton, where 
he was prepared for college. He joined our class in its Sophomore year 
and remained with us through the course, graduating in 1859. He was 
one of the Junior orators from Whig Hall, selecting as his subject " The 
Divine in Art." He was in the " Fourth Division " of Senior Speaking — 
his theme being, " Joan of Arc." 

After a short trip to Europe, he began reading in law. After studying 
a few months in Princeton and then in Washington, D. C. (under Judge 
Campbell), he went to North Carolina and pursued his studies under Judge 
Pierson, He was occupied in law studies, when the war broke out. Af- 
ter performing for a short time the duty of drill-master in North Caro- 
lina, he went to Alabama and enlisted in the twenty-first Alabama Regi- 
ment. He served as a private until after General Bragg's Kentucky 
campaign, when he was commissioned a first-lieutenant and assigned to 
duty in the conscript Bureau at Richmond. A few months before the fall 
of Richmond, he was transferred to the Ordnance Bureau. 

A friend of his who knew the amount of labor performed by him, 
writes : — 

• Deceased. 



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" His services were invaluable to the Bureau, as he added to a strong and accurate 
mind, habits of severe and untiring industry." 

When Richmond was evacuated, he tried to reach General Johnston's 
army in North Carolina, and exposed himself by lying out 'in the svi^amps 
south of Richmond. Ke caught a cold which settled on his lungs. 

At the close of the war, he returned to Mobile and resumed the study 
of law. Here his health soon failed, and he was compelled to abandon his 
books. His history since has been an attempt to regain health. He 
has been north much of the time (at the Highlands on the Hudson and St. 
Paul, Minnesota) and this spring started for San Antonio, Texas. 
?.! He left Mobile, January 5, 1869, and went direct to San Antonio. He 
remained there until March 13th, when he started overland for El Paso. 
He went with a wagon-train and detachment of United States troops, and 
was thirty days on the road. 

After reaching El Paso, he concluded to go down to Chihuahua, Mexi- 
co, about three hundred miles south of El Paso. He reached Chihuahua 
about the first of May, but owing to the intense heat and bad food, he grew 
worse and felt himself sinking. Early in July he started for home, via 
El Paso, Santa Fe, St. Louis, &c., but was prostrated at El Paso by an 
attack of diarrhcea, of which he died August 15, 1869, after an illness of 
three weeks. 

The Assistant Sui-geon at Fort Bliss, Texas, writes : — 

. . . " His disease suddenly increased in intensity a few days since, and in spite of 
all efforts to control it, it rapidly proved fatal. 

."His last moments were apparently devoid of pain, his mental faculties remaining 
unimpaired till the last. . . . His remains I have had for the present placed in the 
cemetery at the Post, and as soon as the weather will permit, they shall be shipped for 
Mobile via New Orleans." 

The lady at whose house GtOldthwaite died, writes : — 

" He departed this life on Monday last, at three o'clock in the afternoon. ... I 
feel it my duty as a Christian to tell you as he was sick at my house for two weeks, and 
I was with him as often as I could leave my business. I am an old lady . . . and 
have had a great many sick persons at my house. This is a great resort for invalids. 
But I never saw a sufferer bear his sickness with such Christian fortitude. He died 
without a struggle or a groan. . . . A few days previous to his death, he asked me 
to sing him a good old pious song, said he would feel so happy, and there seemed to pass 
a ray of bright hope over him. ... I bel'eve he is now in glory, far from all pain 
and misery, and we will go and join him there if we only trust in God." 

The following extracts from two letters of Goldthwaite will be read 
with interest. The first was written on the eve of his departure for Texas , 
and is dated, Mobile, January 6th, 1869 : — 

_" I leave to-morrow for Texas. I was much gratified with the inaugural address, 
which I read with great satisfaction. During the summer my health failed rapidly — so 
much so that my friends became alarmed. I have now recuperated and am about the 
same as when you saw me [at commencement of 1868— K.] My going to Texas will 
prevent my presence at the next class gathering, which will be a great disappointment. 
I remember with infinite satisfaction the last. I will be with you in spirit and will be 
glad if you will send me full accounts of it. . . . I write it earnestly, I cling to my 
college friends more tenaciously than to any I have since formed." 

The second letter is dated May 4, 1869, from Chihuahua, Northern 
Mexico. 



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" I am now on the mend and augur the most beneficial results from this perfection of 
climates. . . . If. is a great source of disiippoiiitment th^t I cannot be with you at 
commencement. I enjoyed the last hugely. I have been forced into much solitude 
and have had to commune much with my own thoughts. My college life and associations 
have been thus kept fresh in memory and have mellowed with time fast enough to make 
them very dear. ... I have been here but a short time, whether I wiirremain or 
go farther south will depend on circumstances. I expect, however, to spend the next 
several years in Mexico — that is, unless I find the search for health unavailing; in which 
case I will endeavor to reach home before the close. . . . Remember me affection- 
ately to each member of the class." [See "Memorials."] 

Geokge Gray (F. A. W: S.) [Itoom, 6 Refectory], 

was born in New Castle, Delaware, May 4, 1840. He prepared for 
college at home. He joined our class in its Junior year and graduated 
with us in 1859. He was in the " First Division " of Senior Speaking 
and took for his subject, " The Progress of Science." His commeDcement 
oration was on " Galileo's Oath." After graduating, be began the study 
of law and was admitted to the bar, May, 1863. He is settled in his 
native town. He is a Presbyterian. 

He took his second degree (A. M.) in course in 1862. 

Francis Blanciiard Hodge (F. A, W. S.) [Hoom, Dr. Hodge'f], 

was born in Princeton, New Jersey, October 24, 1838. He was prepared 
for college at the Edge Hill school in Princeton and joined our class at the 
outset of its college histor3\ He was the first member of the class called 
upon to recite. The recitation was in twenty-first Book of Livy. During 
the revival in the last half of our Freshman year, ho became a Christian and 
joined the Presbyterian Church. He was a Junior Orator from Whig 
Hall and selected as his subject, " Our Relations with England." He was 
in the "Fourth Division " of Senior Speaking and spoke on "Heroism, 
Past and Present.'' His commencement oration was on '' The Influence of 
Literature on the Destiny of America." 

After graduating, he pursued the study of Theology in the Princeton 
Seminary, continuing these studies for four years. He was appointed 
Secretary to his class in the Seminary — an appointment which led him to 
resign a similar position which he held in his college class. He was 
duly licensed to preach the gospel February 4, 1863, and on the ninth of 
May following, was ordained and installed Pastor of the Presbyterian 
Church in Oxford, Pennsylvania. During the summer of 1864, he served 
under the Christian commission in hospitals around Washington, D. C. 

He was married June 2, 1863, to Miss Mary K., daughter of Professor 
Stephen Alexander of Princeton and has two children, viz. : Louisa Alex- 
ander, born November 12, 1864, and Charles, born March 22, 1868. 

He was in 1868 a member of the General Assembly of the Presbj^- 
terian Church (0. S.) which met at Albany, New York ; being a delegate 
from the Presbytery of New Castle. 

A new and beautiful church building was erected by the Oxford con- 
gregation, in which the Secretary twice officiated during flodge's pastorate 
there. Fie can testify to the taste displayed in the simple but commo- 
dious structure and also to the affection felt for Hodge by the whole com- 
munity. He was on many accounts very pleasantly located there. Still, 
such pressure was brought to bear on him by the people of Wilkesbarre, 



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Pennsylvania, tliat he was induced at length to accept a very flattering 
call to the large and influential and responsible position of pastor to the 
Presbyterian church at that place. He was installed over the Wilkes- 
barre people, on the evening of February 23, 1869, the Secretary preach- 
incT the sermon on the interesting occasion. 

This church is situated in one of the most beautiful and healthful 
sections of Pennsylvania, and exerts a powerful influence over all the 
surrounding neighborhood. Some idea of the chanicter of the charge 
may be gathered from the fact that their Sabbath Schools number over 
1,000 pupils. 

Hodijo enjoys excellent health. He has grown some (?). He took 
his second degree (A. M.) in course in 1862. 

Telfair Hodgso-t (F. A. W. S.) [Room, 50 N.], 

was born March 14, 1840, in Columbia, Fluvanna Co., Va. He was 
prepared for college at Col. Kemper's school in Gordonsville, Va. He 
joined our class in its Sophomore year. lie was a Junior Orator from 
Whig Hall — his subject being, "The Puritan and the Cavalier." He 
spoke in the " First JDivisiou " of Senior speaking, on " The Dutch Repub- 
lic." His commencement theme was " Hypatia." 

Subsequently to graduation (in Nov., 1859)^ he became a member of 
the Episcopal Church by confirmation. He then began the study of 
Theology in the Greneral Theological Seminary (Episc.) of New York 
City ; but left for the South at the outbreak of the war. He was a 
corporal in the Southern Army; then Adjutant Gen. in Wheeler's Caval- 
ry. He participated in the battles of Rich Mountain, Greenbrier, Alle- 
ghany, Shiloh, Perry ville, Murfreesboro, Fort Donelson (2d), and Chicka- 
mauo-a. He was wounded at Murfreesboro and disabled. 

He was ordained Deacon, June 14, I860. He was advanced to the 
order of Presbyter, May 5, 1864. Was made chaplain at Macon, Ga., 
and for a time at Milledgeville. 

He was married April 16, 1865, to Miss Fannie Potter, of Savannah, 
daughter of James Potter, Esq., of Princeton, N. J. 

He has one son, born May 12, 1866, named John Hamilton Potter. 

Soon after the close of the war, he became Rector of St. Mary's 
Church at Keyport, N. J. ; where be has remained since, until May of 
this year, when he resigned his charge, previous to taking a European 
tour of some years' duration. Poor health occasioned this movement. 

While Rector of Keyport Church, he published a sermon (in 1867) on 
behalf of the sufferers of the South. 

"Vfculd like to live over my college days again. I can siiy with truth, that they 
v,'cre the happiest of any." [^Letter ofAp. 13, 1869.] 

Edgar Holden (F. C. S.) [Room, 2 Refectory], 

was born in Hingham, Mass., Nov. 3., 1838. He was prepared for college 
in Newark, N. J. He joined our class in its Sophomore year, and gradu- 
ated with us in '59. He spoke in the "Second Division" of Senior 
Speaking, on " Criminal Patriotism." He was elected "Class Poet " for 
our " Class Day," and his commencement piece was " A Poem." Scarcely 
a number of the " Nassau Literary Magazine " was issued which did 



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not contain some lines of Holden's. No one can forget the impression 
made bj " Exponuntur." Tliis was afterward reprinted separately, such 
was the demand for it. 

After graduating, he entered on the study of medicine, graduating 
therein in March, 1861. He at once offered his services to the Grovern- 
ment on the outbreak of the war; and in Sept., 1861, was appointed 
Asst. Surgeon, U. S. N. 

He was Surgeon on the Minnesota in Hampton Eoads, and at the cap- 
ture of Norfolk; also, on the Wyandotte; on the Second Monitor, and the 
Passaic. He participated in the first attack on Charleston, S. C. 

He was engaged in hospital duty, and on the blockade. He was subse- 
quently on the Sassacus when her commander (Koe) endeavored to run 
down the iron-clad ram Albemarle. [For an account of this action, see 
" Harper's Magazine " for Sept., 1864.] In 1864, he directed the Medi- 
cal Department of the James River Squadron, and resigned in the fall of 
.1854. He served in the Army Hospital in Newark, N. J., until the close 
of the war-. 

He is a member of the " Esses Co. Medical Board," and has written 
several articles for medical journals which have attracted attention. One 
on the " Monitor Fever," and another on " The relation of Cancer and 
Tubercle," may be particularly mentioned. 

He is now practising his profession in Newark, and is the c(msulting 
and examining physician for one of the largest Life Insurance companies 
in the North. 

He married Feb. 5, 1862, Miss Kate Hedden, and has three children, 
viz. : Mabel R., born Aug. 3, 1863 ; Emily B., iDorn July 17, 1865; and 
Isabella B., born Feb. 18, 1868.. 

He took his second degree (A. M.) in course in 1862. 

He was a professor of religion before entering college, and now attends 
the Reformed Church in Newark, of which Rev. C. E. Hart (class of '58) 
is Pastor. 

Thomas Humphreys (F. C. S.) [Room, Mr. Arnheiter's], 

was born in Salisbury, Md., June 3, 1839. He joined our class in its 
Sophomore year, and graduated with us in '59. He spoke in the " Second 
Division " of Senior Speaking, on " The Forum and the Press." His 
commencement subject was, '' Our Physical career contrasted with our 
Moral." 

After graduating, he became a student in the Harvard Law School, 
and was admitted to the bar May 7, 1862. He settled in Salisbury, Md. 
He took his second degree (A. M.) in course in 1862. He was married 
Dec. 12, 1867, to Miss Mary V. Freeney, of Salisbury, and has one son — 
though neither his name nor birthday have been reported. 

Julian Darragh Danvier (F. C. S.) [Room, Mr. Forman's], 

was born Sept. 2, 1838, in New Castle, Del. He prepared for college in 
his native town, and joined our class in its junior year. His name is 
found marked in the " Second Division " of Senior Speaking " Excused." 
The subject mentioned is " Western Wilds." He was, likewise, excused 
from speaking on commencement. His subject as announced was " Perse- 
verance." 



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He took his second degree (A. M.) in course ia 1862. 

He is a farmer by profession. He attends the Presbyterian Church. 

Alfred Hosea Kellogg (F. C. S.) {Room^ Mr. Davis's], 

was born in Philadelphia, Penn., Sept. 10, 1837. He was prepared^ for 
college at the High School ; and for a year .by a private tutor. He joined 
oar class at the beginning of the Freshman year. He was in the " First 
Division " of Senior speaking, and spoke on " Tlie Tendencies of the Age." 
He graduated with the Latin Salutatory. 

He studied Theology in Princeton Seminary for the usual period, and 
was licensed to preach April 3, 1861. His first charge was-at Easton, 
Pa., as Pastor of the Brainerd Presbyterian Church. He was ordained 
and installed in Easton, Oct. 22, 1862. 

He remained there until called to succeed Dr. Potts as Pastor of the 
University Place Presbyterian Church, of New York City, over which 
church he was installed May, 1865. 

He has published a little volume for children, entitled " Jesse Thorn- 
ton, or the History of a Missionary Bos." It is published by the Presby- 
terian Board of Publication, Philadelphia. 

He took his second degree (A. M.) in course in 1862. 

He was a member of church before entering college. 

On the resignation of Hodge, he was appointed Class Secretar3^ 

James Buyers Kennedy (F. A. W. S.) [^Room^ 24 E.], 

was born in Gap, Lancaster Co., Pa., Sept., 8, 1839. He was prepared 
for college at Strasburg, Pa., and Trenton, N. J. 

He joined our class in the junior year. He spoke in the " Third 
Division " of Senior Speaking, on " History as a Science," and his com- 
mencement oration was on " The Tyranny of Prejudice." 

He studied Theology in Princeton Seminary, from 1859 to 1863, 
though, for one year of this time, his studies were interrupted by bad 
health. He was licensed to preach the Gospel, June 24, 1862. 

He was ordained and installed Pastor of the Presbyterian Church at 
Huntington Valley, Montgomery Co., Pa., Oct, 15, 1863. There he 
remained about thred years. He was installed Pastor of the Second 
Presbyterian Church of Trenton, N. J., Oct. 14, 1866. 

His health is very good. 

He took his second degree (A. M.) in course in 1862. 

Kennedy was a professor of religion before he entered college. 

He writes that he has done " nothing in the publishing line." Still, 
the secretary has in the class archives the report of an excellent sermon of 
Kennedy's, on Rev. ii : 4, preached in Trenton, on March 7, 1869. 

Fergus Lafayette Kenyon (F. A. W. S.) [Eoom, Mr. Dennis's], 

was born Dec. 4, 1833, in Scotia. He joined our class at the beginning 
of the Freshman year. He spoke in the " Third Division " of Senior 
Speaking, on "The Vanity and Glory of Literature." His commencement 
oration was on " The Mission of Science." 

After graduation, he began the study of Theology in Princeton Semi- 
nary, and remained there four years, from 1858 to 1863. 



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He was licensed to preach in April, 1861. While in the Seminary he 
was appointed Grreek Tutor in the college. This position he kept from 
June 1861 to Feb. 1864. 

Kenyon made the last recitation of our college course (in Bible). 

He took his second degree (A. M.) in course in 1862. 

He was ordained and installed Pastor of the First Presbyterian 
Church of East Orange, N. J., Aug. 2, 1864. There he remained until 
called to a church in Elyria, Ohio. He was installed Pastor of that 
church July 2, 1867. 

He was a member of the Greneral Assembly of the Presbyterian 
Church (N. S.) which met in Harrisburg, Pa., in 1868; and the 
picture of Kenyon in the class group was taken among others of the 
Assembly at that time. 

He was married April 4, 1865, to Miss Hattie A. Squire, of Hartford, 
Conn., and has had one son, born Jan, 27, 1867, and named Fergus 
Arthur. 

Kenyon became a professor of religion before entering college. 

George "Washingto?^ Ketcham (P. C. S.) [Room. 11 N.], 

was born in Newark, N. J., March 28, 1839. He prepared for college at 
Flushing, L. I. He joined our class in its Junior Year, and glfeduated 
with " The Philosophical Oration.-' He spoke in the '■ Third Division" 
of Senior speaking on " Ingratitude to Genius.'' 

He was editor of the September number of the " Nassau Literary Maga- 
zine." After graduation he entered the mercantile house of Messrs. E. 
Ketcham & Co., New York City, and is now a member of the firm. The 
business is that of wholesale tinware manufactui-ers. 

He was married, Oct. 16, 1862, to Miss Erailie L. Gould, of Newark, 
N. J. 

He took his second degree (A. M.) in course in 1862. 

He became a Christian in 1857. Attends the Presbyterian Church. 

William Potts Lloyd * (F. A. W. S.) IRoom, 39 N.], 

was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1837. He was prepared for college at 
the Trenton Academy. He first matriculated at Yale College, where he 
spent the Freshman Year. He joined our class in Princeton in the Sopho- 
more Yeai-, During his course he commanded the attention of the whole 
college because of his extraordinary mental and social endowments. The 
depressing efi"ect of very poor health prevented him from carrying off col- 
lege honors, but nevertheless he was facile princ^ps in the estimation of his 
class. He was equally good in almost every thing. He was accurate in his 
-scholarship. His diction was pure and elegant. His style was simple and 
perspicuous. No one could read the verses he wrote, in magazine or auto- 
grapli book, without feeling that he had a poet's inspiration. We may in- 
stance his piece entitled '• My old Meerschaum " in J/orrA' Magazine, p. 
247, and the lines on " Blue Davil" in Kekhcuii's 3L:igazine, p. 29 (origin- 
ally written in an autograph book). He was so fascinating in conversation 
that his room was always filled with admiring listeners. These latter were 
very diverse in their character, but were united in Lloyd, Even the irre- 

* Deceased. 



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gularities of his course iu college did not repel. They only incited his 
friends most earnestly to checkmate what were felt to be strange freaks, 
but did not lessen the esteem in which they held him. As one who knew 
him intimately, and was permitted to see him in his every aspect, we can 
most cordially assent to his pastor's estimate of him, who wrote of him after 
his decease : 

" He was, I do not hesitate to say, an altogether extraordinary maD, in talents, in 
character, and in personal history." 

He was a Junior orator from Whig Hall, and spoke on '' Pride of Ances- 
try." The subject of his address in the " Fourth Division " of Senior 
Speaking was " The Unknown." His commencement oration was on 
" Life." 

After graduating, he read law for one year in Trenton, N. J. He then 
began to study theology, commencing a course in the Theological Seminary 
at Alleghany City, Pa., and completing his course at home, in pri- 
vate study with his pastor, the lamented Dr. Yeomans. His pastor and 
himself were accustomed to hold daily conversations on the subject of study, 
reviewing his line of reading. At length he presented himself before the 
Presbytery of New Brunswick in Feb., 1863, for licensure. Licensed to 
preach the gospel, he entered with great enthusiasm on what he now looked 
upon as his mission. But scarcely had he begun to fulfil his mission Avhen 
God took him to Himself. He had preached but three or four times 
(strangely enough fulfilling the prayer of his childhood, that he might live 
to preach if only a few times), when he was seized with his last sickness, 
typhoid fever, and died March 26, 1863, aged 26 years. 

His preaching was that of a chastened man — deeply solemn, pungent, 
impressive. His pastor writes of him : 

" He had become clearly and ardently devoted in spirit and thoroughly moulded in 
mind to the work of the ministry. . . . During his illness of .three weeks he was half 
conscious, and without comprehension of the circumstances, was fully aware of ihe fact 
of his approaching death, and the character of his whole frame of spirit was that of 
Christian triumph." 

He was a professor of religion before he entered college. 
He took his second degree m course in 1862. 
[See " Memorials."] 

AuRELiTJS Augustine Lyon (F. A. W. S.) [Iloom, 7 N.l, 

was born Jan. 11, 1838, in Jonesborough, Term. He prepared for college 
at Washington College, Tenn., and at home under private instructors. 
He joined our class in its Junior Year. 

He spoke in the " Second Division" of Senior speaking, on " Defence 
of Benedict Arnold." His commencement speech was on " Our Glory and 
our Shame." It was by the strenuous exertions of A. Lyon and "Eectus" 
(Wright) that a gymnasium was erected on the college grounds. 

He chose medicine for his profession. His studies were pursued botb 
at the University of Louisiana and at the St. Louis Medical College. 
From this latter school he took his degree in Feb. 22, 1861. 

In Sept., 1861, he entered the southern army, and for five months was iu 
one of the military hospitals at Richmond. In March, 1862, he was pro- 



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moteci to Assistant-Surgeon, and assigned to the army of the Peninsula. 
In Jan., 1863, he was promoted to Surgeon. In Feb., 1855, he became 
Brigade-Surgeon. He served in the army of Virginia all the time, and 
was present with General Lee at the surrender of Appomattox C. IT. Since 
his return from the army he settled in Artesia, Miss. (14 miles west from 
Columbus), where he now resides. He was never sick nor wounded in the 
entire war. His health has been uniformly good. He has never had a 
serious attack of illness since 1849, when he had the cholera. 

He took his second degree (A. M.) at the late Commencement (18G9.) 
He became a professor of religion while in college, and is a member of 
the Presbyterian Church. 
He writes : 

" I have carefully preserved in my scrap-book, among other college relics, a ludicrous 
caricature of Pollock pursued by a terrible bed-hug, a sort of Gorgon monster, said to 
have been a denizen of Pollock's room in West College. The production was the work 
of Woodbridge's artistic brain and hand. It was passed around the class one afternoon 
during the recitation in chemistry, and occasioned a great deal of merriment at the time. 
It may be remembered by some of the class. I keep it as a reminder of those careless, 
joyous days. Its contemplation is, however, somewhat saddened by the remembrance 
that poor Pollock has gone forever from amongst us." 

He met J. A. Alexander and also Brady during the war. 

% 
TiiEonoRic Cecil Lyon (F. A. W. S.) [Eoom, 7 N.], 

was born in Rogersville, Tenn., Nov. 5, 1839. " Can't say that I was 
prepared for college anywhere. From Wyman's High School, St. Louis, 
Mo., I went at 14 to Old Washington College in East Tenn. — the school 
of the Boaks — was a fresh, and soph, thei^e. Left there in April, 1856. 
Studied through the summer at Ash wood, Tenn., until the fall ; came home 
to Coluinbus, and Grus and I studied by ourselves, until in August, 1857, 
we entered the Junior at Princeton." 

He was the editor of the Nassau X/'terary Mar/aune for the month of 
June, 1859. He spoke in the " Fourth Division" of Senior Speaking on 
" The Logic of Persecution." His Commeacement speech was on " The 
Eloquence of Erskine." 

He chose the profession of the lawyer. Studied a year at home under 
Chancellor Dickinson ; then continued his studies at Lebanon University 
(Tenn.) from which school he was graduated. 

In Jan., 1861, he published a speech of six or seven columns in i\\e Re- 
piiblican Banner^ Nashville, Tenn., on the subject, " Do the times demand 
a SouLhern Confederacy?" — an argument against the theory and policy of 
secession. 

In Aug., 1863, he wrote also a document known as '• The Thompson 
Letter," published in the Southern ItepiiUic, Columbus, Miss., wherein he 
advocated a reconstruction of the old Union. Being at the time in the con- 
federate ranks — a line officer — this latter document wa.3 deemed treason- 
able in its spirit. In Oct., 1863, he was accordingly tried before a court 
martial and reduced to the ranks. He had served in well nigh all the 
armies from the Mississippi to the Rappahannock, Hrst as a private, then 
as a line officer, then by being cashiered, a private again. The end of the 
war found hiiu a private in South Carolina. 

" One of my first labors after hanging up a weary sword (or musket rather) was to 
begin electioneering for old Princeton." 



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He became a professor of religion while ia college, and is a member 
of the Presbyterian Church. 

He took his second degree (A. M.) at the late commencement (1869.) 

"Bear to the men of '59 mv cordial brotherly salutations. . . . Tell them that from 
far off Mississippi we would assure them that nothing has come between them (any of 
them) and us . . . that we are true in our remembrance to them whom, as time rolls by, 
we are more than ever pleased to call 'friends and classmates' — true in our first alle- 
giance to old Princeton, our grand Alma Mater, and are trying to be true to — ourselves." 
—[Letter of June 11, 1868.] 

William Alfred McAtee (F, A. W. S.) [Jioom, Mr. McVeigh's], 

was born in Smithsburg, Md., June 25, 1838. He first matriculated at 
Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., but came to Princeton and joined our 
class in its Junior Year. 

He was the Editor of the December number of the Nassaii Literary 
Magazine. He spoke in the '' Second Division " of Senior Speaking on 
" Christianity and Mental Development." His commencement address 
was on " Christianity an Educating Power." 

Graduating from college, he entered upon the study of Theology. He 
spent two years (1859-1861) in the Danville, Ky., School, and two years 
(1861-1863) in the Princeton Seminary. 

He was licensed to preach, at the end of two years of theological study, 
in April 13, 1861. From August, 1861, he was Tutor of Hhetoric in the 
College, His tutorship and the precarious state of his brother's health 
have kept him from a pastoral charge, although he for some time assisted 
E,ev. S. S. Mitchell, of Harrisburg, in the care of his mission. 

He took his second degree (A.M.) in course in 1862. 

He was a member of the Presbyterian Church before he came to 
Princeton. 

Thomas Jefferson McKaig, Jr., (F. A. W. S.) [Room, Miss Passage's], 

was born in Cumberland, Md., March 18. 1840. He joined our class in 
the Freshman Year, being one of the original nineteen members. 

He spoke in the " Fourth Division '' of Senior Speaking, and also at 
commencement — his subject being, on both occasions, " Oliver Cromwell." 

On graduating, he began the study of law, in his father's office, at 
Cumberland, where he prosecuted his studies until the outbreak of the 
war. He at once espoused the Southern cause and joined himself to its 
fortunes, remaining throughout the struggle. He left Cumberland for 
the South, on Sept. 12, 1861. He was a private in Sixth Virginia Cavalry 
until 1863. Then he became lieutenant in the same, forming part of Gen. 
Lee's body-guard. He was in all the battles of the army of Northern 
Virginia during the war. 

At the end of the war he returned North, and is now settled in Balti- 
more, Md., in the practice of the law. 

During part of the time, between graduation and the outbreak of the 
war, he edited a newspaper in Cumberland, called The Cumberland 
Bulletin. 

David Magie (F. C. S.) [Room, Mr. Arnheiter's], 
was born Jan. 15, 1841, in New York City. He joined our class in its 



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Sophomore Year. He spoke in the " Second Division '' of Senior Speaking, 
on " Tendencies of Revolution." His commencement ppeeeh was on 
" True Republicanism." 

After graduation, he became a clerk in New York City. After a 
year's clerking, he began to study medicine, and was graduated at 
" College of Physicians and Surgeons, " in New York City. He acted as 
a " Medical Cadet " at Frederick, Md., for two months. He was subse- 
quently connected, in various capacities, with the New York Hospital. 
He took the Harsen Medal for clinical reports at that Institution. 

He spent about three years in Europe, principally engaged there in the 
study of his profession. He has settled in New York City. 

He took his second degree (A.M.) in course in 186'2. 

He became a church member while in college. 
\ He takes a great interest in all Princeton matters. 

John Bell Mhoon (F. A. W. S.) [Room, 21 E.], 

was born Feb. 10, 1839, in Tuscumbia, Ala. He joined our class in its 
Sophomore year. He spoke in the " Second Division," on " Ireland." 

He spent the interval between graduation and the outbreak of the 
war, as he expresses himself, " wandering over the country, but principally 
in Florida and Texas and the West." He joined the Southern Army at 
the beginning of the war, as a private. 

He was a Lieutenant in Gen. Bragg's " Pioneers." He was also a 
Captain on Gen. Marmaduke's Staff (Trans Miss. Department C.S.A..). 

He was a scout for Gen. Albert S. Johnston, and captured three 
times, though he escaped always within a week. He surrendered as Chief 
Engineer of the District of Arkansas, at Shreveport, La., on June 7, 
1866. 

He is now a Commission Merchant in Memphis, Tenn., "wishing every 
member of the old class long life, health, and happiness." 

Charles Barrett Morris (F. C. S.) \_Room, Mr. Upington's], 

was born in Montclair, N. J., Oct. 14., 1836. He was prepared for 
college at the Bloomfield Academy. He was one of the original Fresh 
Class, and all through college took a lively interest in class matters. He 
was the Editor of the March number of the Nassau Literary ll^igazine. 
He spoke in the " Fourth Division " of Senior Speaking, on " Heirs of a 
Continent," and his commencement oration was on " The World's Tests of 
Great Men." 

After graduation, he engaged principally in mercantile pursuits in his 
native village. His business is that of general hardware, agricultural and 
house furnishing, under the firm of " Wm. S. Morris & Son." He also 
devotes much time to civil engineering. He takes a commanding position 
in all matters of local interest, ejj., he was appointed " County Commis- 
sioner " by Gov. Ward, for five years. He was elected Magistrate in 
1868. He is the President of a Missionary Society; member of the Ex- 
ecutive Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association ; a Sabbath- 
school Teacher, etc., etc. 

He enjoys good health. 

" I have never had a serious sickness, but begin to feel the great strain on my nervous 
system of constant application to varied business from early morn to night." 



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He was married June 10, 1863, to Miss Mary J. Perry, of Dummers 
ton, Yt., and has had two sons, viz., George Perry, born Feb., 1864, and 
William B , born Oct. 3, 1867. 

He took his second degree (A.M.) in course in 1862. 

Morris became a church member (Presbyterian) before he entered 
college. 

Walter Scott Oliphant (F. A. W. S.) [Itoom, 5 W.] 

was born Aug. 24, 1838, in Medford, N. J. He joined our class in its 
Sophomore Year. He spoke in the " Third Division " of Senior Speaking, 
on " Kobert Bruce," 

After graduation, he studied law, and was admitted to the bar, June, 
1862. He settled at Mount Holly, N. J., where he still resides. 

He was married Oct. 17, 1867, to Miss Augusta Read. 

He took his second degree (A.M.) in course in 1862. 

Samuel Hepbukn Pollock* (F. C. S.) \IiCom, Mr. Leach's], 

was born Oct. 23, 1838, in Milton, Pa. He was prepared for col- 
lege at the academy in his native town. He joined our class in its 
Freshman Year. He spoke in the " Third Division " of Senior Speaking, 
on " The Fall of the Aztecs," and at commencement, on "The Good Time 
Coming."' After his graduation, he studied law with his father. Governor 
James Pollock, until the outbreak of the war. He tendered his services 
to the Government on the first call of President Lincoln, and with the 
company of which he was a member, pi'oceeded to Harrisburg for that 
purpose. The quota being filled, his company's services were declined. 
Soon after, returning to Phikdelphia, he entered on his duties as one of 
the clerks of the U. S. Mint, of which institution his father was then 
director. In July, 1861, he was appointed Chief Clerk to the Director of 
the Mint, with the approval of the President, the arduous and responsible 
duties of which position he continued to discharge ably and faithfully until 
a few days before his death. 

In 1862, he resigned his position in the Mint, to join the 131st Penn- 
sylvania Regiment as Adjutant. He was at the battle of Antietam in the 
reserve, and was actively engaged in the battles of Fredericksburg and 
Chancetlorsville [ see under " Frierson "j, and behaved with coolness and 
bravery. In the absence of the superior officers of his regiment on other 
duty, he commanded his regiment at Fredericksburg for some hours during 
the most sanguinary part of the struggle. During this period, he was 
struck on the shoulder with the fragment of a shell that exploded near 
him, but escaped without injury. He was honorably discharged at the 
end of his term of service, when he again entered the Mint and resumed 
his duties, as stated above. 

His health was seriously affected by a chronic diarrhoea, contracted in 
the army. The most skilful treatment failed to check or control the pro- 
gress of the disease, which, after some months — reducing his weight and 
strength greatly, and gradually undermining his robust constitution — j)ro- 
duced his death, at 4 o'clock, on the morning of October 25, 1865. He 



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■was able, tliougli enfeebled, to attend to his duties, until Thursday the 
19th October, when, for the first time, he was unable to leave his bed. 

During his last illness, he was solemnly impressed on the subject of 
religion. On the evening of the 23d of October, being the anniversary of 
his birth, as he was lying upon his bed, he uttered the prayer, " Lord, 
help vne." His father, who was sitting at his bed-bide, at once said, 
" You have asked help from the right source," adding some Avords of in- 
vitation. He replied, " I have called upon Him, and hope that I have 
found Jesus, and trust in Him," In other language he a|so expressed his 
hope in Christ. To his mother he said, " I have trusted in Jesus, and He 
is precious to me. I have been the chief of sinners, but I have prayed 
more than you have any idea of, mother — I am not afraid ot death. A 
great change came over me to-night, without any excitement, but all 
peaceful and calm. Every thing seems changed." This was on his birth- 
day ! 

On the afternoon of the 24th, his father, standing by his bed, took him 
by the hand and said : " Heb ! it is a precious truth that Jesus Christ 
died to save sinners." He at once, with deep earnestness, responded, 
" Yes ! Christ died for me ! I accept it cordially. What a consolation !" 
He seemed to comprehend the doctrines of grace, and rested his all for 
time and eternity upon Jesus. In the dark valley, he leaned upon his 
Saviour, and, thus trusting, he approached his dying hour. 'Twas like the 
gentle sleep of infancy. He fell asleep in Jesus, with the blessedfchope of 
awaking in His likeness. 

He was buried in the Milton Cemetery of his native town on Friday, 
October 27, 18G5. [See '• Memorials "] 

James W. Reese (F. A. W. S.) [Room, 24 W.], 

was born in Westminster, Md., October 3,1838. He was prepared for 
college partly at St. Timothy's Hall, Catonsville, Md., and partly by pri- 
vate tutors. He was one of the original Freshman Class. He was the 
editor of the October number of the Nassau Literanj Majazine. He was 
elected by his classmates " Class Oi'ator. " [For an account of his oration 
see " Histoiy in College."] He spoke in the " Third Division " of Senior 
Speaking, on " Paracelsus," On Commencement Day, he delivered 
the " Classical Oration." He took his second degree (A.M.) in course 
in 1862. 

The first year after leaving college was passed at home in study. In 
the fall of 1860, he entered the G-eneral Theological Seminary of the 
P. E. Church, in New York City. He was graduated from that seminary 
in 1863. In 1861, he was appointed tutor of Latin in the college, but 
being at that time a student in New York, he declined the position. He 
was ordained a Deacon by Bishop Whittingham, on the 27th of Septem- 
ber, 1863, in St. Anne's Church, Annapolis, Md. In January, 1864, he 
became the Rector of the parish of the Ascension, Westminster, Carroll 
Co., Md., which position he has occupied up to the present time. 

He has had no serious illness, though his general health has not been 
very good. 

He was married February 12, 1868, to Miss Mary Pauline Perry, of 
Westminster, Md. 

Reese became a member of the Episcopal Church in the November suc- 
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He writes 



"I feel a warm interest in all my classmates, and as I seldom see any of them, am all 
the more pleased to hear of them. 

Joseph Haswell Eobinson* (F. C. S.) [Boom^ 52 N.], 

was born in Bennington, Vt., January 30, 1836. He was first matricu- 
lated in Williams' College, Massachusetts, but at length came to Prince- 
ton, and joined our class in its Junior Year. He was a Junior Orator 
from Clio Hall, and spoke on " The Living and the Dead." His subject 
in the Senior speaking (Third Division) was " Popularity." His Com- 
mencement Oration was on " The Individual." 

After graduation, he studied theology privately for one year, and then 
went to the Princeton Seminary, where he remained nearly two years. He 
was licensed to preach, June 16, 1862. 

He had thi-ee pastoral charges in the course of his brief ministry. The 
first was in Troy, N. Y. ; the second in Williamsburg, N. Y., and the third 
in Cornwall, N. Y. 

He was ordained and installed Pastor of the Third Presbyterian 
Church at Troy, in April, 1863. In May, 1864, he became the Pastor 
of the Pirst Church, Williamsburg (Brooklyn, E. D.,) N. Y., and he was 
installed at Cornwall, October 25, 1866. 

Here he remained until he was suddenly called to his rest. A mem- 
ber of the family writes : 

''His last illness was, we believe, brought on by overwork. In that state he called to 

see a sick and dying man — one wholly unfit to die His own illness was a 

short one. He was taken sick on the 24th of February, and passed away on the even 
ing of the 4th of March, 1868. From the first, he was a very sick man. Ho would 
often say, " If I ever get well," etc., f s if he felt he might not rise from his bed. . . 
. . His Saviour was with him. One thought possessed him — " He would know bet- 
ter how to preach to his people, should he recover." 



In the N. Y. Evavgelist of May 14, 1868, a friend of R.'s, a Co-Pres- 
byter, signing himself " E. P. Pt.," writes thus : 

"Many of us looked forward to our stated Spring meeting [that of the ' North River 
Presbytery'] as to a funeral, for whin we last met, our beloved and most sincerely 
lamented brother, Joseph H. Robinson, was the life of our number. Now, the brave, 
cheery soldier has accomplished his warfare. It is almost surprising to observe the 
wide and genuine sorrow at his loss. His residence among us dates back months rather 
than years, and yet we had come to trust and lean upon him as one long known. 

"Mr. R, was a growing man. His mind was highly cultured and disciplined, and he 
worked with that steady, cheerful enthusiasm which ever accomplishes much. I had 
opportunities of knowing him well, as my father and brother resided in his parish, and 
wei-e officers of his Church. Every time I visit this early home, I witness the strongest 
proof of deep and abiding attachment to him, and unfeigned sorrow at his death. 

"The Church had prospered greatly under his pastorate, and it was that healthy, 
steady growth which is so satisfactory. Not only the people of Cornwall, but the 
Christian community at large, met with a greater bereavement than will ever be known, 
for he was a man that marched steadily onward and upward, and his power of useful- 
ness was developing faster than even he himself realized. 

" He fid his people and it seemed to them that every new sermon was an improve- 
ment on the last. In Presbytery, he had the way of getting at the heart of a question 

* Deceased. 



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with a quick, slivewd, practical wisdom, whicli always secured for liis opinions special 
attention. The good people of Peelvslvill,* to whom he had made himself agreeable 
on a foimer occasion, mourned his loss as if nil old friend had died, and not a stranger. 
While the Cornwall Church and North River Presbytery exist as organizations, the name 
of Robinson will remain a household word." 

Robinson was a Christian when he came to college. 

He was married April 27, 1865, to Miss Frances A. Swezey, of Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., and had one son born, after his death, June 11, 1868, and 
named after his father. [See " Memorials ."] 

John Henry Kodxey (F. A. W. S.) [Boom, 49 N.J, 

was born in Newcastle, Del., June 18, 1839. He joined our class in the 
Junior Year, He spoke in the " Third Division " of Senior Speaking on 
" Hannibal and Napoleon." 

After graduating, he studied law in Harvard, and has settled in his 
native village. 

He took his second degree (A.M.) m course in 18G2. 

He attends the Episcopal Church. 

He was married June 8, 1869, to Miss Annie D. Reeves, of New- 
castle, Del., according to Janvier " a great-granddaughter of one of the 
signers of the Declaration of Independence.'' 

He writes June 23, 1869 : * 

"I suppose I ought to apologize for my neglect of the many circulars, etc., you have 
sent me. I have always had it in my mind tliat communication with you wa^ so easy 
and near that I have unpardonably delayed writing. To be frank, in addition, the 
character and quantity of questions asked staggered me somewhat. Your last letter, 
however, receives my attention, as it only asks one question, and one, too, whicli I am 
very happy to be able to answer — namely, "my birthday." I was born June 16, 
1839. As Janvier has informed you of the second great step in life that I have taken, 
viz., my marriage, there is notliing else of sufficient importance iu my life which should 
go upon record." 

Henet Everett Russell (F. C. S.) {Room, 30 W.], 

was born August 31, 1839, in Macon, Ga. He prepared for college at 
" The Scientific and Military Institute," located first at Danbury, Conn., 
and afterward (1858) at Perth Amboy, N. J. (Rev. Elias S. Schenck, an 
alumnus of Princeton, Principal). He joined our class in its Junior 
Year. He was a Junior Orator from Clio Hall, and spoke on ''Unity of 
Action." He spoke in the "First Division" of Senior Speaking, on 
" Mind and Muscle." He graduated with the " Valedictory." 

After graduation, he began the study of law in the Columbia College 
Law School, receiving in 1861 from that institution his Degree of LLB. 
He was admitted to the bar, June 4, 1861, and commenced the practice of 
law, October, 1861, in New York City, where he has since remained. He 
took his second Degree (A.M.) in course, in 1862. He was elected Alumni 
Orator of Columbia College Law School for 1867 — his subject being 
« The Law of Suffrage." 

Russell has taken an active part in the political movements and ques- 
tions of the day. In 1862, he published a political pamphlet, entitled, 
" McClellan and Fremont." Afterward and during the progress of the 

* Presbytery was meeting there at this date. 



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war, he wrote occasional political articles ; some appearing as Essays in 
the Continental Monthly^ and others as editorials in the New York Evening 
Post. One of the Continental Monihh/ papers, on the subject of the Con- 
stitutional Amendment abolishing slavery, was published separately in 
pamphlet form by Randolph, of New York. He also wrote a series of 
editorial articles for the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, at the time the Bank- 
rupt Bill was first introduced into Congress, in favor of establishing a 
permanent system of bankruptcy. He was one of the Republican candi- 
dates for membership in the N. Y, " Constitutional Convention of 1867," 
but was defeated by four votes. He was '' Inspector of Registry and 
Elections " in New York City for 1868-9. 

He also takes an active interest in the benevolent institutions of 
New York. He is one of the Executive Committee of the " New York 
State Prison Association." 

As to Russell's religious history and convictions, he writes : 

" I made public profession of my faith in Jesus Christ, as the Son of God and Saviour 
of mankind, at Danbury, Conn., in the Spriiip; of 1855. Iain a Unitarian, as denomina- 
tional lines are drawn. I call myself what I devoutly wish I were — a Catholic Chris- 
tian ; and I declare myself .1 member of the Cliurch Catholic of all ages 

I am at present connected with the Second Unitarian Church of Xe*v York, known as 
the ' Church of the Messiah,' Rev. Dr. Osgood, Pastor." 

He has been the Superintendent of Dr. Osgood's Sabbath School since 
October, 1862. He has also taken a lively interest in the religious move- 
ments of the day. He was a Delegate to the Unitarian National Confer- 
ence in 1865, and to the Unitarian^Local Conferences of 1866 and 1868. 
He has also prepared occasional religious articles and reviews for the 
Liberal Christian, of N." Y. City. 

He was married. October 11, 1865, to Miss Sarah Wood Warner, of 
Morristown, N. J., and has one son, named Everett Warner, born July 
10, 1866. 

Russell's health was very good from graduation until the Spring of 
1868, when exposure and fatigue incidental to a political campaign brought 
on a bad cold, which ended in inflammation of the throat. This disease, 
apparently conquered, reappeared during the last winter in a virulent form, 
and since January, 1869, has obliged him, as he says, "to practice law by 
deputy, and devote his own time to the personal study of the art of 
medicine." 

He is better now, but must be quiet until fall, when he says that he 
must virtually begin life over again. He has just met with a severe aifliction 
in the loss of a beloved father. 

Frederic Stump (F. C. S.) [Room, 5 N.], 

■was born March 17, 1837, in Elljton, Md. He was prepared for college at 
Elizabeth, N. J., under Mr. D. H. Pierson, and at Bellair Academy, Har- 
ford Co., Md., under Rev. T. S. C. Smith. He joined our class in the 
Sophomore Year. He was a Junior Orator from Clio Hall, and spoke on 
"Motives." His speech on the " First Division" of Senior Speaking 
was on "Catholicism in Ireland." His Commencement Oration was on 
" Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus." 

After graduation, he began the study of law, and was admitted to the 
bar, August, 1861. 



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He took his second Degree (A.M.) in course in 1862. 

He was married May 18, 18G3, to Miss Mary A. Stump, of Elkton, 
Md. This union was, however, destined to be a short one. His wife died 
in May, 1865 — a sorrow thus overwhehiiing our classmate, in which every 

one of us will desire to express our deep sympathj^ He was 

was elected, in the fall of 1867, one of the Judges of the Second Judicial 
District of Maryland, composed of the Counties of Cecil, Kent, Caroline, 
Queen Anne, and Talbot. He holds this position for the term of fifteen 
years. 

He is a Presbyterian. 

Charles Lokenzo Sykes, (F. C. S.) [lioom, Mr. Arnheitcr's], 

was born in Springfield, N. Y., February 19, 1835. He joined our class 
in its Sophomore Year. He spoke in the " First Division " of Senior 
speaking, on " The Realm of Death." 

After graduation, he studied theology in the General Theological 
Seminary of the P. E. Church in New Yoriv City for the usual time. 

He was ordained Deacon, May 20, 1862, and a Presbyter, July 26, 
1862. He worked as a missionary for a short time near New Yoi-k City, 
and at length, on September 1, 1862, became Keetor of St. John's Church, 
Richfield Springs, N. Y. 

He has resigned this charge on account of ill health, having jjreached 
his farewell sermon on September 5, 1869. He will probably go on a farm 
in Virginia in search of health. 

He took his second Degree (A.M.) iji course in 1862 

He married, April 16, 1863, Miss Lizzie McCready, of New York City. 
His eldest child (a son) was born April 25, 1864, and his daughter on the 
24th of July, 1865. 

Robert Tarleton,'^ (F. A. W. S.) [Hoom, 10 W.], 

was born June 20, 1838, in Talladega Co., Ala. He was matriculated in 
Princeton, in Aug., 1854, but his studies were intermitted on account of 
poor health and he joined our class in its Sophomore year. 

He spoke in the " Fourth Division " of Senior Speaking, on " Matter 
Thinks." ' 

After graduation, he studied Medicine in New York City. 

At the outbreak of the war, he went South to Mobile, where his family 
resided, and at once joined his fortunes to the Southern cause. 

In a letter from Cole, dated Sept., 1865, we have the following account 
of him : 

"He enlisted as a private, and as sucli s>\vr some rough times. He and Goldthwaito 
were detailed as clerks together at General Brag.^'s iieadquarters. Afterward Tarleton 
was appointed a Lieutenant of Artillery and stationed at Fort Morgan. He was at his 
post, cool and brave as he always was, during the attack, and was taken prisoner and 
carried to New Orleans. 

" Just before the fall of Fort Morgan, I receiveil a letter from Tarleton, asking me to 
come out to Mobile and " help him to get married." Before I could reply, the fort fell, 
and with it, /thought, poor Bob's matrimonial plans. What was my surprise, thcn,^ to 
learn that Bob had put his old gymnastics to use and had escaped from priscm, waded 
armpit deep through the swanips which surround New Orleans, and had^^'cometo 
time' and been married — the United States to the contrary notwithstanding." 

* Deceased. 



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He was married Nov. 29, 1864, to Miss Sallle B. Lightfoot, of Pass 
Christian, Miss., and has had three children, two daughters and a son. The 
first, Sarah Lightfoot, was born Sept. 12, 1865; Robert Melvin, was born 
Oct. 18, 1866, and Margaret, on Sept. 29, 1868, the day after our class- 
mate's decease. 

This latter sad event will best be narrated by Henry (roldthwaite in a 
letter to Cole. He says : 

"Poor Rob died on Monday morning, the 28th of Sept. [1868] at 1^ o'clock, after 
just one week's sickness, and on Tuesday at twelve he was laid away in tlie tomb near 
our beloved Susie [Cole's wife and T.'s sister]. They were at Point Clear, opposite 
Mobile. On Monday (a -week before his death) at the request of Rob's wife, I went to 
town for Dr. Ross, who never left him till he died. I never saw more untiring devotion 
in my life, and we all feel that he did every thing for him possible He had con- 
gestion of the bowels. Poor fellow! he died as he lived, without a complaint, heroic 
and noble fellow that he was. 

" Dr. Massey {the Rector of Trinity Church, Mobile), came down on Sunday night and 
conversed with him a good deal, and early on Monday Rob called his mother-in-law and 
wife and Dr. Massey to come and pray with him, after which he took communion and 

died a happy death On the evening of the day of his death was the third child 

born." 

" So ends," adds Cole, •' the human life and so iejhis, I trust, the glori- 
ous imuiortality of one of the very noblest of men." 
[See " Memorials.'"] 

Chester Van Syckel, (F. C. S.) [Boom, 6 E.], 

was born June 6, 1838, in Union township, N. J. 

He joined our class in its Junior Year. His speech in the " Third 
Division " of Senior Speaking, was on " The Mind ennobled by Educa- 
tion." 

After graduation, he studied law and was admitted to the bar, Nov. 
6, 1863, and settled in Flemington, N. J.; where, it is believed, he still 
resides. 

He took his second degree (A.. M.) in course in 1862. 

Edwin Morrison Ward, (F. C. S.) [Room, 14 E.], 

was born Feb. 1, 1840, in Bloomfield, N. J. He joined our class in its 
Sophomore yeai-. He spoke in the " Third Division " of Senior Speaking, 
on " Aaron Burr." 

After graduation, he studied medicine, and was admitted to practice 
March, 1862. He is settled in his native village. 

Ward entered the army during the war in his professional capacity, and 
distinguished himself for his ability and fidelity, though his modesty is 
such that he has failed even to tell the class where he was. 

Robert Belville Watson, (F. C. S.) [Boom, 31 N.], 

was born May 7, 1838, in Gettysburg, Penn. He was prepared for col- 
lege at home by a private tutor, for a couple of years, and afterward 
studied in the Edge Hill School, Princeton, and at Lawrenceville, N. J. 
He joined our class in the Freshman year, and took his first degree with 
us in '59 and his second, in course, in '62, 



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He became a professor of relifj;ion during his college course (Jan. ISST)". 
He spoke in the " First Division ■ ' of Senior Speaking on " The Classics," 
and at Commencement, on " Emancipation in Russia," 

After graduation he studied medicine, and received his degree from the 
University of Pennsylvania in March 1863. Pie first settled in Columbia, 
Pa. During the war he was Assistant-Surgeon, and was on duty at Al- 
toona, Pa., Pittsburg, Pa, (Camp Howe), and Parkersburg, Va. (with 
the 55th Pennsylvania). He was mustered out of service in August 1863. 
He then settled at Miffliuburg, Pa., where he remained until 5lay 1864, 
when he re-entered the army as surgeon, being stationed at Chester, Pa. 
At the close of the war he went to Lock Haven. Pa., and entered into 
a partnership with Dr. Lichtenthaler. In January, 1867, this partnership 
was dissolved, and since then he has been practising medicine by himself. 

He was married, Dec. 13, 1866, to Miss Emma L. Grafius, of Lock 
Haven, and has had but one child, a daughter, born Sept., 14, 1867, It 
survived its birth but a short time. 

Otis Benjamin Webster* (F. C, S.) [Boom, 2 N.], 

was born Jan. 3, 1834, in Derry, N. H. He joined our class in its Sopho- 
more Year. He spoke in the" Fourth Division" of Senior Speaking on 
" The Bemas." His Commencement oration was on '' The Future of Elo- 
quence." During the latter part of our course, Webster headed tie resis- 
tance to the extortions of the booksellers in Princeton, and charged himself 
with buying books for the whole college. This circumstance brought him 
into acquaintance with the students generally. His health was doubtless 
undermined, however, by his close attention to the interests of his fellow- 
students and by his unremitted application to study, and so, at the end of 
his course, he sought to recover strength by accepting a travelling agency 
in the South. This consumed one year. Another year was spent partly 
in teaching and partly in efforts to recover health. 

In Sept., 1861, he commenced the study of theology in Princeton Semi- 
nary. Previously to setting out for Princeton, he visited his friends, as he 
said, " probably for the last time, as, after he had entered on his tcork, his 
time would not be his own but his Master's." He looked forward with 
keen pleasure to his preparatory course for the ministry. He had not been 
more than a few mouths in the Seminary when he was summoned home by 
the rapid decline of a sister to whom he was fondly attached. 

There is a record in his journal of January 21, 1862, showing how 
deeply his mind was wrought upon by surrounding circumstances : 

"I seem to see the deep, dark river, with its turbid, sluggish waters rolling ou, and 
the angels hovering over it and the light beyond. All our thoughts are there. In the 
little time of my sojourn here, may I accomplish much for my Master." 

This, with one exception, was his last entry. 

The evening of the 24th he conversed more than usual for him. 

He reviewed his whole life, and enumerated many instances wherein 
God's special providence was manifested toward him, and said he felt per- 
fectly passive in His hands. He seemed to think that death was with them, 
and it was no time to speak or think of the things of the world. 

The next morning (the 25th) he came down-stairs with an intense head- 
ache and said, " What can it mean ? " but in an instant his left side was 

* Deceased. 



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paralyzed ; another instant and all sensation was gone — forever as it proved. 
He breathed without moving for eighteen hours, and at two o'clock on 
Sabbath morning, Jan. 26th, 1862, went to his rest. Eis loorh was done. 
He gave his friends no parting word nor farev/ell look, but they felt that it 
was well with him. [See " Memorials."] 

G-RANT Weidman (F. A. W. S.) [Room^ 5 E.], 

was born Sept. 8, 1839, in Melrose, near Trenton, N. J. He was prepared 
for college at the Lebanon (Pa.) Academy; also, at Litiz, Pa., Lawrence- 
ville, N. J., and at home for six months with a private tutor. He joined 
our class in the Freshman Year. He spoke in the "Third Division" of 
Senior Speaking on '' The Orator of the French Kevolution." His oration 
at Commencement was on " The Last of the Stuarts." He took his first 
degree in '59, and his second (A. M.) in course in 1862. 

After graduation, he entered upon the study of law, and was admitted 
to practice, Aug. 23, 1861, settling in Lebanon, Pa. Lie was immediately 
appointed Assistant District Attorney for Lebanon County. He continued 
in the practice of his profession until Nov. 1862, when he was appointed 
Major of the 173d Pennsylvania (nine months' men). The regiment was 
ordered to General Dix's Department. In July, 1863, the regiment i-e- 
ported to General Meade, reaching him several days before Lee crossed the 
Potomac after the battle of Gettysburg. The regiment was attached to 
the First Brigade, Second Division, Eleventh Army "Corps (Genernl 
Howard's). He remained in the regiment until its term of service expired 
in Aug. 1863, when he resumed his law practice at Lebanon, where he stiil 
resides. 

He was married, September 7, 1864, to Miss Lizzie Henry, of Leban- 
on, and has had three children, viz., John, born June 17, 1865, (surviving, 
however, but about six weeks) ; Mary H., born June 24, 1866, and Grant, 
born September 3, 1868. 

In ]8d6, Weidman was appointed U. S. Assessor of Internal Revenue 
for the 10th District of Pennsylvania, and filled the position for about four 
mojjths; but his appointment was non-concurred in by the Senate. 

He enjoys excellent health. His name, as Reese suggested at our 
Supper, is no misnomer. 

Of the new President he writes : 

"I often wonder whether those who graduate under Dr. McCosh'a administration will 
think of him as affectionally as I bcheve we all do of Johnny Maclean. I really believe 
that the old man has a good share of the hearts of all his pupils. Sure I am that I i:iever 
met an exception." 

He>]ry W. Williams (F. C. S.) [Room, Rev. Mr. Williams's], 

was born June 18, 1839, in Clinton, N. J. He joined our class in its 
Sophomore year. He spoke in the "First Division" of Senior Speaking, 
on " The Knights of St. John." He graduated in 1859, and took his 
second degree (A.M.) in course in 1862^ 

After graduation, he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 
1861, and practised first in California with Gen. Shields. 

Then he lived in Nevada for a time, interested in silver minlno'. In 
1863 he came East, and from that time to this, has been living, first in New 



SKETCHES. 79 

York City, then in Orange, N. J., and tlien in Princeton, N. J., ^'ith 
his fatliev. 

He was to return about tlie 1st of July to California with his father. 

Sylvester Wooderidge (F, C. S.) [lioom, 16 E.], 

was born February 23, 1837, in Quogue, L. I. He joined our class in 
the Freshman year, being one of the original 19 members. He was the 
editor of the November number of the Wassaii Literary Magazine. 
He spoke in the " Fourth Division " of Senior Speaking, on '•' P]l Dorado." 
His commencement oration was on " The Influence of the Beautiful." 
He took his first degree with the class in 1859, and his second in course 
in 1862. 

After graduation, he studied medicine. He passed seven years in the 
United States Marine Hospital at Sau Francisco, California, and resigned 
his position of Assistant Surgeon and druggist in August, 1867. It was 
a severe school, and his health he reports as completely ruined. 

" For a few moiitlis last fall," he writes, November 29, 1868, " I acted as Assistant 
Surgeon in U. S. A., attaclied to the 32d Regiment Infautry. That position, too, 
I have been forced to h-avc from sickness. For the iast five months, I have been 
Professor of Latin and Belles Letters in the Vallejo High School ; but I much fear that 
the duties ;ire too ardiio\is for me. I have serious thoughts of a trip to Ali^ka or the 
Society Islands — possibly to Australia or Jap;in. ..... There, 

that "lets me out," for, of course all the fight for fortuni' and a home, the successes 
and the dis;ippointmonts, tlie spasms of joy or tlie dreary heartsickness of despair — all 
these, which make up our /i/'e, don't go down in any class digest. But it would be 
interesting and curious (would it notV), if against each classmate's name theij co\i\i\ 
be recorded." 

His address is Benicia, California. 

William Bull Wright (F. A. W. S.) [Room, 20 N.], 

was born September 29, 1840, in Walkill, N. Y. He prepared for college 
in Groshen, N. Y. He joined our class in its Freshman year. He spoke 
in the "First Division'' of Senior Speaking, on "Faith ,yud Reason." 
His commencement address was on " Selfsufficiency."' 

After graduation, he taught for two years in Buffalo, N. Y., keeping 
up at the same time the gymnastics, for which he and A. Lyon were famous 
in college. 

On the breaking out of the war, he served in the ?Lxmj. At first he 
was a private in the 5th New York Infantry. With the latter regiment 
he had only a formal connection, serving from date of commission as 
A. D. C. to'Maj.-G-en. Crawford of 3d Div. 5th Army Corps, holding at 
the saiue time the position of Judge Advocate on the Staff. He was in 
many battles — the leading ones being Berry vilie, Winchester, Fisher's 
Hill, Hatcher's Run, White Oak Road, Five Forks, &c. &c. 

He received two Brevets; one of Captain and one of Major. 

Shortly after the war he beo-an the study of medicine in the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, New York City— studying there for three years. 

He graduated in medicine, March 1, 1869, and is now settled in Goshen, 
N. Y., in the practice of his profession. 

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time has been passed in quiet literary pursuits, with an eye single to self-culture. The 
poems that he has composed daring this period (since graduation) .... are the 
natural efflorescence of the leisure hours of a poetical temperament." 

In 1868, our classmate, true to the passion displayed so extensively in 
collese, published a poem. The title-page runs thus : " Highland 
Rambles ; a Poem. By ^Villiam B. Wright [183 pp.] Boston, Adams 
and Company, 1868." As the critic in the Courier says: 

"The work has been given to the world at the earnest solicitation of friends, the 
position among the literati of the country of many of whom entitles their favorable 
opiciion to great weight." 

There is a highly appreciative notice of the book in The Radical 
for July, 1868. Also, the notice in the Buffalo Courier already 
mentioned. 

He became a professor of religion in 1866 (a Presbyterian), but some 
three or four years since, withdrew from the church, dissenting from the 
current theology. 

James Bucks Yerger (F. A. W. S.) [^Room^ Mr, McVeigh's], 

was born February 11, 1840, in Jackson, Miss. He was prepared for 
college at a High School near Jackson, known as St. Andrew's College. 
He joined our class in its Junior year. He spoke in the " Fourth Divis- 
ion " of Senior Speaking, on the " Jews." 

He studied law in his father's office. He had just married, and been 
licensed to practice, when the war broke out. He entered the Southern 
army. He was 1st Lieutenant and aid to Maj.-Gren. S. Gr. French (former- 
ly of New Jersey). He was in the army of Gen. J. E. Johnston in the 
movements in the rear of Vicksburg, and about Jackson and Meridian. 
He was with Johnson's " Army of the Tennessee " after the battle of 
Besaca, and engaged in all the movements of that army during the cam- 
paign in Greorgia. He was with the same army under Gen. Hood, in the 
movement upon Nashville, particularly in the battles of Franklin and 
Nashville. Afterward, he was on temporary duty on the stafi" of Gen. 
Tucker, commanding the post of Jackson, Miss., and surrendered with 
him. 

He held the office of Secretary of State during the time that the Hon. 
W. E. Sharkey was Provisional Governor of Mississippi. 

In July, 1865, he wrote : 

" I have now quietly subsided into peaceful avocations, and amuse myself in my hours 
of leisure with two handsome boys who call me father." 

He was married November 1, 1860, to Miss Bebecca Stith of Vicks- 
burg, Miss., and has had four children, all boys, viz. : James Bucks, born 
November 1, 1862 (just two years after marriage); Walter, born June 
14, 1865 ; Henry, born April 13, 1867, and William, born July 11, 

Yerger is honored with being the father of our "Class Boy." (See 
account of " Cup Presentation " in Decennial Meeting). 

Yerger is a member of the law-firm of " W. & J. B.. Yerger," com- 
posed of his father, brother, and himself. 

On June 8, 1868, he writes : 



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"I wish Tou would remember me most kindly to all the Class— al?o to Dr. Maclean. 
I very often think of them. It was very sail news to me to hear of the death of 
Zabiiskie. He and I sat so constantly side by side, and I entertained for him always 
the warmest feeling. He and I little thought that on leaving College, we would so soon 

participate on opposing sides in a mighty war Webster, too, alas! is 

dead." .... 

Yei-ger, •wife aud children, all enjoy fine liealth. 

Abram Zabrtskie* (F. C. S.) [Hoom, 5 W.], 

was born February 18, 1841, in Hackensack. N. J. 

Pie prepared for college at Edge Hill School, in Princeton, and joined 
our class in its Sophomore year. He took his first degree in '59 aud his 
second in course in '62. 

He spoke in the '' Fourth Division " of Senior Speaking, on " Charac- 
ter." - 

After graduation, he entered upon the study of law — beginning his 
course in his father's office in Jersey City, N. J. In the winter of 1860- 
'61, he had prepared himself to spend the ensuing year in a European tour. 
He expected to sail with Hon. W. L. Dayton, the U. S. Minister to Paris. 
His passage had been engaged, but on the fall of Sumter he gave up the 
plan, saying, "I am not going to Europe; I will stay to do myjiart in 
this war." 

His military career began in September, 1861, as Adjt. to Col. Allen 
of the 9th N. J. Regt. Immediately upon his appointment, he joined the 
regiment, and was devoted to the service until his fatal wound. In 
December the regiment embarked at Annapolis, with Burnside's expedition, 
for Roanoke Island. He took part in the battle which was the second 
decided success of the war for the Northern side. He was also, with 
his regiment, near Beaufort, N. C, Morehead City, Tarboro', Groldsboro, 
Kinston, and Whitehall. 

After successive promotions for his ability and bravery, in January, 
1863, he received the colonelcy of the regiment. 

He was ofi" Charleston during the first 3Ionitor attack on Fort Sumter. 
Thence he returned to Newberu, then to Carolina City. In the absence 
of Gen. Heckman, he was left in command of the Department of Beaufort, 
as Acting Brig -General. 

The term of service of the Ninth N. J. expired in February, 1861, but 
Colonel and men re-enlisted. They were granted a "veteran furlough." 
They were greeted on their return with a public reception by the Mayor 
and Council and by the citizens of Jersey City. Col. Zabriskie was pre- 
sented with a splendid sword by distinguished citizens, as a token of their 
appreciation of bis services. 

On his return to the field, Col. Z. was engaged for about a month in 
presiding over a General Court Martial at Portsmouth, Va. On the 30th 
of April (1864) he returned to his regiment. A few days after his return 
he, with his regiment, ascended the James River, moving, with the General 
in command, toward Richmond. From the time they landed at Bermuda 
Hundred, until the iGth of May, he was actively engaged in the contest, 
for the most part sleeping at night on the field. On the morning of the 
16th, his regiment was on the right of Gen. Heckman's brigade, which was 

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the rigbt wing of Butler's army, haviDg an open space between it and the 
river. The attack of that day was at early dawn. In a dense fog the 
Confederates, in great force, rushed on the right wing in front and flank. 
They found the Ninth, with its Colonel at its head, formed in order, to 
receive them. In the thick fog, the place of the Confederates could only be 
distinguished by the flashes of their guns ; the regiment did not deliver fire 
until the Confederates were within forty paces. Fifteen minutes after the 
attack was made, Col. Zabriskie received his mortal wound — a shot which 
penetrated his wind-pipe and lodged somewhere in his neck. He told 
Capt. Lawrence, who was near, to tell Lieut.-Col. Stewart that he was' 
wounded, and he should assume command. Immediately Captain Lawrence 
fell, from the wound of which he afterwards died. Col. Zabriskie then 
went himself to Stewart and gave his command. Leaning on Lieut. 
Burnett, he was led to the rear. On his way, he saw some of his men in 
confusion and attempted to rally them, but found that his voice failed him. 
Meeting Gen. Heckman advancing, and having, though wounded, a clear 
and cool comprehension of the way the fight was going, he stopped and 
told him the danger of their forces being surrounded — which event after- 
ward occurred. 

From the first, the surgeon perceived that the wound was a mortal one. 
On Tuesday, the 17th, he, was sent to Chesapeake Hospital, where he 
arrived the next day. On the 20th, his father and brothers reached him. 
At first they were cheered by some appearance of improvement, but he 
soon began to sink, and, after great suffering, died on the evening of the 
24th of May, 1864, eight days after receiving the fatal shot. 

[The Secretary has in his possession a copy of the " Memorial of Col. Z., prepared by 
the bar of Hudson County," containing a sketch of his hfo and services — of which the 
previous account is a brief — the funeral sermon of the Kev. Dr. Campbell, President 
of Rutgers College; memorials of public sentiment at his death, e.g.^ "Proceedings of 
the bar," action of the Jersey City Common Council, with numerous obituary notices 
from local papers, and an account of the Sword Presentation, furnishing Zabriskie's 
manly speech on receiving it, &c. &c.] 

The Secretary, with Russell, Kenyon, Ketcham, Magie, and Morris, 
attended the funeral. We were assigned a place in the procession and 
seats in the church. There was a vast concourse of mourners and friends, 
and the services were very impressive. (See " Minutes of Class Meetings 
No. v.") 

On July 15, 1864, a general order. No. 80, was issued from " Head- 
quarters, Department of Va. and N. C., in the Field," from which the 
following extract is taken, and which shows how Zabriskie was regarded by 
his superior officers : 

" In honor of the memory of some of the gallant dead of this Army, who have fallen 
in this campaign, the redoubts and batteries on the lines will hereafter be known as 
follows, viz. ; Redoubt on Cobb's Hill, near Signal Tower, is named Redoubt Zabriskie, 
after Col. Abram Zabriskie, Ninth New Jersey Volunteers." 

[See " Memorials."] 



83 



II. IsrON-aRADUATE MEMBERS. 



Joseph A. Alexander, (F. C. S.), 

was born in South Carolina, . He joined our class in its 

Junior year, entering from Atlanta, Greorgia. He remained with us but a 
short time, when receiving an appointment, he became a cadet in the Mili- 
tary Academy at West Poiut. 

He entered the Academy, July 1, 1858, "appointed from Georgia." 
With other Southern cadets, he resigned his appointment March 11, 1861. 

He was in the Southern army. 

Since the war, the Secretary searched for him far and wide, *nd at 
length found him in New York City. He was present at the dinner at 
Delraonico's given by the Princeton Alumni Association of New York, but 
as he came in late and retired early, the Secretary had very little conver- 
sation with him. 

Any communication will reach him if directed to " Nos. 448 and 450 
Broadway, New York City." 

Franklin Andehson * (F. A. W .S.), 

a son of Dr. Kichard Anderson of Brookeville, Md. He joined our class 
in its Freshman year and left at the end of it. Very little is known of 
him. From a letter of his aunt's dated Dec. 8, 1868, the Secretary learned 
that he had studied medicine and had become a physician. She added : 

" He died in Charleston, S. C, during the war, of yellow fever, after a short illness. 
We received the intelligence from a member of the family soon after the war." 

The Secretary was directed to " Dr. W. W. Anderson, of Stateburg, 
S. C," for other information, but no reply has been received to the many 
communications sent to the gentleman. [See " Memorials."] 

Anson S. Archer (F. C. S.), 

was born Nov. 11, 1838, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was one of the origi- 
nal nineteen members of the Freshman class. He left at the end of that 
year. After leaving college, he studied medicine in Philadelphia, and 
graduated March, 1858. 

In the fall of 1858, he removed to New York, and became a clerk in the 
manufactory of "Archer & Pancoast." 

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84: SKETCHES. 

la Sept. 1863, he went to Baton Kouge, La,, ivhere he engaged in 
mercantile pursuits until July, 1868, when he returned North and at 
length settled in Springfield, Mass. 

He is by graduation a Doctor of Medicine, but expects to engage 
hereafter in the Gas Fixtures Business. 

He was married July 28, 1864, to Mrs. Taylor, of Baton Rouge, La, 
He has a step-daughter (8 years of age) named Sallie Taylor and a sob, 
named Norman Leslie, born Sept. 28, 1865. 

John J, Black (F. C, S.), 

was born Nov. 6, 1837, at Delaware City, Del. He was prepared for 
college at New Castle, Del. He joined our class in its Sophomore year 
and left us in the Junior year. 

He went to San Francisco, Cal. and studied medicine in the U. S. 
Marine Hospital, but graduated in 1862 from the University of Penn, 
He spent four years in hospital life in Philadelphia ; first, as Resident 
Surgeon in U. S. A., and then as Resident Physician in the Blockley 
Hospital. He was also an assistant to the Demonstrator of Anatomy at 
the University of Penn, from Oct. '65 to Oct, 1866. 

He went to Europe in Oct. 1866, returned in 1867 and settled in 
New Castle, Del. He has occasionally contributed to 7nedical journals. 
His health is good. He is a Presbyterian. 

John H. Brady (F. C. S.), 

was born in Abbeville District, S, C. He entered our 

class in its Junior year and remained with us until near the closo of our 
Senior year, but did not graduate. 

The Secretary has heard nothing from him. 

He was seen during the war by A. A, Lyon, and was then Sergeant- 
Major of a South Carolina regiment. 

The only other item concerning him is from Cole, who wrote that on 
his return from Georgia in May, (1865), he stopped at a house near Cal- 
houn's Mills, S. C, (Abbeville District), and was both surprised and de- 
lighted to meet there his quondam chum Brady. He continues : 

" He had just returned from the army — was a lieutenant of cavalry — an excellent and 
brave soldier — was not married, but hoped to be ere very long. He was in robust 
health and we spent a pleasant eveniug in discussing college days and college men," 

This letter was written in Sept., 1865. 

Fenton B. Clabaugh (F. A, W. S.), 

was born in Cumberland, Md. He entered our class in the 

Freshman year and left us at the end of the Sophomore year. 

Nothing has been heard from him, except that he is living in Balti- 
more, Md., in business with his father, 

Charles E. Cossitt * (F, C, S.), 
wa&born Oct. 16, 1837, in La Grange, Tenn. He was prepared for col- 



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lege at home. He joined ouv class in the Freshman year, remaining with 
us through the Freshman and part of the Sophomore year. After leaving 
Princeton, he entered the University of Virginia, where he remained two 
years. He then returned home and attended the La Grange Synodical 
College for five months. He then went to Cumberland Univei'sity Law 
School, at Lebanon, Tenn., where he graduated. 

He entered on the practice of law in Memphis, Tenn., in 1860, and 
continued practice until the outbreak of the war. In April, 1861, he 
raised in Memphis a company of which he was made captain (Company C 
2d Tenn.) and participated in the battles of Belmont and Shiloh. He was 
complimented for bravery on the field of Shiloh by Gen. Cheatham. In May, 
1862, he raised a cavalry company. He was killed at the battle of Lib- 
erty, Tenn. (near Murfreesboro), on March 20, 1863. At the time he 
was a captain in the 15th Tenn. Cavalry, under Gen. Morgan. He was 
shot through the side while charging one of the Federal batteries with his 
company, falling within twenty feet of the guns. He survived twc'nty-four 
hours and was conscious to the last. In accordance with his last request, 
his brother removed his remains to La Grange. He now sleeps near his 
old home. 

On hearing of his death, Woodbridge, his chum and friend, wrote : 

" Poor fellow ! — A ' fitful fever ' was life indeed to him, with all his wild, vague, 
ambiliions and aspirations for a great and noble future. I never met a larg^ more 
generous disposition than was his." [See "Memorials."] 

Geoege a. Courts * (F. C. S.), 

was born Feb. 14, 1836, in Surry county, N. C. 

He became a student in the State University at Chapel Hill for a year 
or so, but was compelled to leave on account of ill-health. A northern 
climate being deemed advisable, he afterward entered Princeton. He 
joined our class shortly after the commencement of our Junior studies. 

His health did not improve and he soon found it necessary to abandon 
his studies and return home. 

He excelled in all his studies, showing a fine mind which appeared to 
brighten as his bodily powers failed. 

At Chapel Hill he carried away the honors of a class of 137. 

One who knew him well thus writes of him : 

"Though Courts was richly endowed with mind, it was nevertheless his moral quali- 
ties, his sense of duty, his candor, his love of truth, his filial and brotherly affection, his 
Christian principles which so endeared him to his family and friends, and rendered his 
example so worthy of imitation, especially by all }oung men. He never intentionally 
inflicted pain upon any one or any thing. He was charitable and tolerant in his opin- 
ions and views of human character." 

Courts had been for several years a member of the Methodist church, 
and the manner of his death, his patience amid his sufferings, his resigna- 
tion, his clear and steady faith in Christ, formed a fit conclusion to a life 
like his. In a letter written by him to a dear relative about a mouth be- 
fore his death, he said : 

" Be not troubled if it should thus result. It will be for the best. I know it would 
pain me to leave you and others behind, but it will be so short a time that the noise of 
your footsteps can be heard in the distance." 

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To a Christian friend to whom he wrote requesting his presence by his 
deathbed, he said : 

" I love you, because you are Christ's." 

Happy the father of such a son ! and infinitely happy the son himself 
now, who, released from mortal suiFei'ing, is one of the sons of Grod. 

Courts died in Rockingham county, N. C.,' on the 19th July, 1858. 
For several months preceding, he suffered intensely from a malignant 
tumor of the knee, which was the immediate cause of his death. 

In the Nassau Literary Magazine for Sept. 1858, (edited by Ketcham), 
there is a brief editorial announcement of Courts' death. It is added : 

"His attainments in scholarship were of the highest order, while his social qualities 
have endeared him to all who had the good pleasure of his acquaintance." [See " Me- 
morials."] 

Charles E, G-reen (F. C. S.), 

was born in Trenton, N. J., on Oct. 9, 1840. After preparation in the 
Trenton Academy, he joined our class in its Sophomore year. On ac- 
count of weakness in his eyes demanding rest, he abandoned our class at 
the end of the year, and remained out of college for a whole year. He 
then joined the class of 1860 in their Junior term and graduated with 
them. He took his second degree m course in 1863. After graduation 
he studied law — first at Cambridge, then in his uncle's office. He was 
admitted to the bar in June, 1863. In addition to ofiice practice, he has 
published several volumes of N. J. Equity Reports. 

He was married Nov. 9, 1865, to Miss Mary Potter of Trenton, N. J., 
and has had two children, viz. : Helen, born Oct. 17, 1866, and Henry, 
born April 30, 1868. 

PiNCKNEY Latham (F. A. W. S.), 

was born Sept. 13, 1839, in Covington, Tenn. 

He joined our class in its Freshman year and was one of its most char- 
acteristic members. His perfect self-control and entire independence 
coupled with an easy and most enjoyable good nature, made him a most 
unmanageable Freshman for Tutors to deal with, and yet caused no little 
merriment among his classmates. All the members of the Freshman class 
regretted it when Latham felt it necessary to leave Princeton. 

On leaving college, he went home and soon after began to read law. 
He had made some little progress in his profession, as he says, when the 
war occurred. 

He joined a company from Memphis — the " Shelby Grays." He was 
In Company A, of the 4th Tenn. Reg't., Stewart's Brigade, Cheatham's 
Division. 

He served through the entire war as a private, and was one of the few 
who escaped all its dangers untouched. 

After the " surrfender," he returned to Memphis — gave up his legal 
profession and became a Bank clerk. After two years, he entered a cot- 
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Pie has been for nearly three years a member of the Presbyterian 
church. 

William D. Lumpkin (F. C. S.), 

was born at Macon, Ga , April 22, 1839. 

He was a member of the original Freshman class and remained with 
us through the Junior year. 

He was one of the Junior orators from Clio Hall and spoke on " The 
Eloquence of Action." 

After leaving Princeton, he. entered the Law School at Lebanon, 
Tenn., from which he graduated. He was doing a good business in Mem- 
phis before the war. He early volunteered in the 4th Tenn. Reg't., and 
was promoted to the rank of Major on the Staff of Maj. Gen. Hardee. 

Bad health caused him to retire to his plantation in Georgia, where he 
remained until the end of the war. 

Yerger writes in July, 1865 : 

I met Tony Lumpkin two or three times during tlie war. He was as light-hearted 
and kindly as ever. 

He married Miss Emma Anderson, of Lebanon, on Feb. 14, 1861, and 
has had three children, two living, Emma and Mary. The othe^ a fine 
boy, died in Georgia. 



James B. Mills ^" (F. A. W. S.), 

was born in Utica, N. Y., Sept. 21, 1839. He joined our class in its 
Freshman year and remained with us through it, but his health obliged 
him to leave. He was confined to the house for about a year. He then 
joined in various engineering operations until Oct., 1830, Avhen he went to 
San Francisco to join Lieut. Mowry, who had been appointed a commis- 
sioner on the part of the U. S. to run the boundary between California and 
Utah. The surveys were stopped by the war; whereupon Mills was in- 
duced by Mowry to go to Arizona and superintend a silver mine in which 
Mowry was interested. He was thus engaged until the latter part of 1863, 
when he was massacred by the Apaches. 

He was massacred on the 29th of Dec, 1863, in a canon about three 
miles from the hacienda of the San Antonio Mining Company, in Arizona, 
on the trail to the Patagonia or Mowry Mine. 

A detailed account of the mournful tale is given by J. Ross Browne, 
in a paper entitled " A Tour Through Arizona,'' first published in Har- 
per's Monthly for Feb., 1865, (since published iu book form.) 

The account was given to the writer by Mr. Yerkes, the Superinten- 
dent of the San Antonio Co. 

It appears that Mills was about to turn over the management of the 
Mowry Mine to a Mr. Edwin Stevens, who had just arrived. For this 
purpose Mills and Stevens started from Santa Cruz for the Mowry Mine 
on the morning of the 29th of December. 

The distance from Santa Cruz is about fifteen miles, the hacienda of 
San Antonio being a little less than half way. 

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At an early hour on the fatal morning, while Mr. Yerkes was preparing 
breakfast in his cabin, Mills and Stevens rode up and stopped on their 
way. Some conversation ensued, Yerkes pressing them to stop a while and 
take some breakfast. They said they were anxious to get on, but finally 
concluded to take breakfast. Both were in excellent spirits and full of 
life and hope. In about an hour they mounted their horses and rode off 
toward the caiion. This was the last Yerkes ever saw of them alive. A 
short time after two Mexican boys came running in, breathless and panic- 
stricken, stating that while on the way over to the mine, a little beyond the 
entrance into the caiion, they saw on the top of the ridge, which they had 
taken for safety, a large number of fresh Apache tracks, forming a trail 
into the caiion. They immediately turned back, but had not preceded far 
when they saw two Americans on horseback rapidly enter the caiion. Sus- 
pecting that an ambuscade was prepared in advance, they shouted 
" Apaches ! Los Apaches !" but they failed to make themselves heard. 
They then waited a while until they heard the firing of many guns in rapid 
succession, by which they knew that the Indians had attacked the two 
horsemen. Mr. Yerkes and three American workmen at his house im- 
mediately seized their arms and rode out to the caiion. It was quite 
silent. The dead bodies of the two young men lay by the road-side, naked 
and disfigured with wounds. Arrows were scattered around them, and 
many were found sticking in their bodies. Stevens was doubtless killed at 
the first fire. . . . The body of Mills was found thirty yards to the 
left, on the slope of the caiion, close by a tree behind which he had 
evidently made a stand and fought for some time. Marks of a desperate 
struggle were seen all over the ground. . . . Mills' body was pierced 
with balls, arrows, and lances, showing seventeen distinct wounds, most of 
them mortal. . . 

I visited the burial place of these young men at the IMowry Mines (writes Mr. 
Browne). On the rise of a hill, overlooking the valley of the Hacienda, surrounded by 
mountains crowned with the verdure of oak groves, with an almost perpetual summer 
sky overhead, far isolated from ihe busy haunts of the civilized world, lie the remains 
of seventeen white men. Fiften of the number are victims of violence. One of the 
graves bears the simple inscription, "J. B. Mills, Jr. December 29th, 1863." 

Woodbridge, in a letter, (Nov. 29, 1868,) thus refers to Mills and his 
massacre : 

Poor Jack ! another brave, adventurous spirit, and with an administrative ability 
second to none upon this coast, fell before the tire of an iVpache ambuscade. The day 
before he sailed from San Francisco for Arizona, we sat and had a long talk about our 
old college life. Then we discussed all the methods of Indian warfare — in which he was 
an adopt. He seemed to have a very solenui premonitior of iiis death, (bow plain and 
clear it all comes back to me to-day !) and expressed a determination never to fall alive 
into Apache hands. He redeemed his promise by fighting with desperation till he was 
literally riddled with arrows and bullets. 

[See " Memorials."] 

N. C. Mitchell (F. A. W. S.), 

was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 1, 1841. lie joined our class in the 
Freshilian year, but left before we were through with our Sophomore year. 
He has spent two years in a counting-house in Philadelphia, and one year 
in San Francisco. Shortly after the outbreak of tlie war he crossed the 
plains, and arriving at Corinth, enlisted as a private in an Illinois battalion 



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of cavalry, and was mustered out as Lieut.-Colonel in command of the 4tli 
U. S. Colored Cavalry, March, 1866. Since that time be has lived in 
Philadelphia, engaged in the sugar refining business. The firm is "Rogers 
& Mitchell " of the " Columbia Steam Sugar Refinery." In a letter he 
says : " Kindly remember me to any of the old set whom you may com- 
municate with.'' 

Alexander Duncan Moore* (F. A. W. S.), 

was born March 3, 1838, at his grandfather's, in Moore County, N. C. 
He joined our class in the Sophomore year and left during its progress. 
He left college to enter West Point Military Academy. There he re- 
• mained nearly four years, acquitting himself very creditably. He returned 
home when N. C. seceded, in the spring of 1861, after which time he was 
a confederate soldier. 

He was killed by a sharpshooter at Gaines Mills (9 miles from Rich- 
mond,) on June 3, 1864. He was Colonel of the 66th N. C. Regiment at 
the time of his death. 

A letter from Major Wright of the 66th Reg't, dated June 6, 1864, 
published in a N. C. paper, gives the particulars of the closing scene, and 
a warm tribute to his memor3% We cannot withhold the following ex- 
tracts : ^ 

After giving a description of the battle of Gaines Mills, fought at 
daylight, on the 3d of June, he proceeds : 

This was our status. . . . every thing quiet along the lines. . . . when Col. 
Moore came to my wing and commenced one of those gay, pleasant conferences which 
characterized our daily intercourse. We were talking and laughing togetlier when he 
changed his position to give an order . . . his breast just above the parapet, when 
he reeled heavily and fell expiring into my arms from the remorseless bullet of a Y;inkee 
sharpshooter. . . . In less tlian one minute the soul of the brave, generous, chival- 
rous Moore had sprung from the service of his country to his God. 

He was much my junior, but since Aug. 3, 1863, we have been daily thrown to- 
gether, and our confidences and social relations have been both pleasant and unreserved. 
His was a military education, and to the energies of a strong and well ordered mind, 
he added love and enthusiasm for his profession and there were precious few men in 
whose judgment I would more readily confide. ... I can say I never knew a 
braver man. Of delicate and refined sensibilities himself, he accorded them to others ; 
and to the stern quahty of the soldier he brought the charm of social converse, 
heightened as it was by education and a love of a chaste, ennobling literature. . . . 
He had endeared himself to this regiment, and when I announced his death there was 
sorrow in all our lines. ... He was not only brave but even gay in battle. 

Many flattering notices of Col. Moore (among others one from Gen'l 
P. H. Hill,) have been received by his father, but it is unnecessary to pub- 
lish them here; they accord with Cole's estimate of him written in Sep- 
tember, 1865 : 

He was a noble spirit, and gentle and ingenuous as a girl, and yet a firm disciplinar- 
ian and a gallant soldier. 

[See " Memorials."] 

D. W. Moore (F. A. W. S.), 
was born Oct. 2, 1839, in Fayetteville, Ark. tie joined our class in the 

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Sophomore year and remained with us a little more than a year. After 
leavino- Princeton he returned home and continued his studies about a year 
loDo-er at Arkansas College. In the Spring of 1861, he left Fayetteville 
for Van Buren, Ark., and entered on farming. He left Van Buren that 
same year as a member of the first volunteer infantry company raised in 
his county for the Confederate States service. He participated in the 
battle of Oak Hill on Aug. 10th, and continued in the service through the 
war. After the close of the war (some two years,) he again began farming 
in Van Bui'en, and is now engaged in that occupation. His letter, dated 
April 12, 1869, is full of kindly feeling for the class and college. 

Henry KiKKE White Muse* (F. A. W. S.), 

was born in Louisiana, on March 23, 1838. 

His mother was Julia Granby Edwards, " whom he much resembled 
and to whom he was indebted for that sweetness and amiability of temper 
which endeared him to his kindred and friends." 

He had enjoyed the advantage of being reared in a family where 
religion was made attractive and delightful to the young. He had become 
a member of the Methodist church before he left home. He came to col- 
lege followed by a most affectionate father's continued counsels — counsels 
which had much to do in shaping both his character and methods of study. 

He joined our class with our Freshman year, and uninterruptedly con- 
tinued his studies with us for two and a half year?. In college he bad 
pursued his studies with zeal, and embraced with delight every means of 
culture offered in and out of the Institution. His quiet dignity, nobility, 
and amiability of character won for him the warmest friendships and the 
sincere regard of all his classmates. 

lleturning at the end of the first session of the Junior year, for the first 
time since his departure for college, to his much loved home, he reached 
there on Christmas Eve, and was received by all with affection and joy 
which knew no bounds. The time allowed for his sojourn having passed 
away, he took his departure again for college. On the morning of his 
departure, he joined in the usual devotional exercises, he himself reading 
the 3d chapter of the Book of Proverbs with much deliberation and with 
indications of the deepest feeling. Reaching Vicksburg, he embarked on 
the " Col. Crossman," and was on board the fated steamer when, on the 
the night of Feb. 3d, the boiler exploded with frightful violence. 

Muse received severe cuts in the temple and strokes across the upper 
part of the face and nose from shattered timbers. He also received 
wounds in his left knee and right hand. The steamer in flames, he was 
obliged to jump overboard. He was rescued by a skiff, brought to the 
shore and carried to the farm-house of Mr. Horace Chadwick, near New 
Madrid, Mo., where he was treated with every kindness and remained 
until he died. 

His wounds were painful and attended by secondary hasmorrhages, 
which returned at intervals from the 3d to the 23d. The last one com- 
menced on the night of Monday the 22d, about 11 o'clock, and for nearly 
four^ hours the blood gushed out with an uncontrollable power, defying 
medical skill. He sank rapidly and breathed his last at 3^ on the after" 
noon of Tuesday, the 23d Feb. 

• Deceased. 



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He bore his illness with fortitude and submission. He said he commit- 
ted himself into the hands of his Heavenly Father. 

Muse's father had arrived some five days before his death, and in 
response to an inquiry *' if all was well with him,^' he said, " Ob, yes, Pa." 

His remains, at his own request, were taken back to his loved earthly 
home, " there to repose beneath the green bay tree, chosen by himself for 
his resting-place, until the resurrection morn." 

The college was in session when the sad news of our classmate's un- 
timely end reached us. The news produced a profound impression upon 
the whole college. The class held a meeting to take action on the matter. 
Addresses were made by Lloyd, Kenyon, and others, all testifying to the 
grief universally felt for his loss. Suitable resolutions were adopted by a 
rising vote. A neat monument, from a design furnished by the Bairds of 
Philadelphia, was erected on the student's plot in the Princeton Ceme- 
tery, where it now stands. It bears an inscription on each side, viz. :' On 
the east side, " Henry Kirke White Muse, of Lousiana." On the north 
side, " Died February 23, 1858, aged 18 years." On the west side, 
" Erected by the Junior Class of 1858." On the south side, " 'AKoAor^ei 
/xot." 

A duplicate copy of tliis monument was erected over Muse's grave by 
his devoted father. A photograph of it is bound with this record. 

A book of 333 pages entitled " Correspondence with my Son at Prince- 
ton, by James H. Muse, of the Louisiana Bar,'' with an engraved portrait 
of Muse, and dedicated to the class of 1859, was published by John A. 
Gray, of New York. [See " Memorials."] 

The Secretary sent to Muse's father all class documents, drawing his 
attention especially to the remarks of Lloyd at our Triennial meeting [see 
Digest No. I. p. 40]. In reply, a letter was received, dated Sept. 28, 1865, 
from which the following extract is made : 

Dear to m_y heart as the memory of my departed son will ever be, it affords me 
inexpressible delight to know that his memory is likewise cherished by his fellow-stu- 
dents of Princeton Through you I beg leave to retui-n my grateful acknowledg- 
ments to the class of 1859, humbly invoking the Divine blessing on every one of them. 
Any memorials will be gratefully received. 



Cyrus P. Nelson (F. C. S.), 

was born in Berlin, Md., Dee. 31, 1837. He joined our class in its Sopho- 
more Year, and left some time in the year. After leaving college he 
studied law, but never practised the profession. He is engaged now in 
farming. 

Cadwell W. Raines 

is entered in the college catalogue as from " Texas," but there is nothing 
else to indicate his place of residence. After many attempts to trace him, 
the Secretary has been obliged to give up the search. He was a_ member 
of the class, however, but a short time, having joined us in the Junior Year, 
and left college in a few months. 

George T. Ribble (F. A. W. S.), 
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93 SKETCHES. 

but a short time. All class doeunients have been and are still transmitted 
to him at the old address, but the Secretary has never had any response 
from him. 

Nothing whatever is known either of him or his history. 

Michael Stone RoBERTSOif* (F. A. W. S.), 

was born f at " Cedar Hill,'' the name of his ancestral home in Durham 
Parish, Charles Co., Md. He was prepared for college at Charlotte Hall 
Academy, St, Mary's Co., (Mr. Broune, principal). He joined our class in 
its Sophomore Year, but was soon obliged to leave. He then became a 
farmer. In 1861, he was a member of a volunteer cavalry company in 
Charles Co. ; in 1862, a captain of infantry. 

He and his company offered their services to the Southern army. He 
was in the battle of Ball Run and Muuson's Hill, and then joined the 
army of General Jackson, aud fought with the " Bucktails " through the 
valley campaign up to the engagement preceding by two days the battle of 
Cross Keys on Cedar Mountain. The skirmish occurred on June 6, 1862. 
His first wound proved instantly fatal — a musket ball passing directly 
through his body. His remains now rest in Charles Co., at the home of 
his mother. 

He belonged to the Episcopal Church. His uncle writes : 

He was pioup, studious, mild, brave, beloved, influential, ardent, calm. He was the 
last surviving child of six — his father preceding them only a short time. These bereave- 
ments for a time told heavily on his mother's constitution. The calm aud quietude in 
%vhich her old age now rests, we labor to preserve. The slightest allusion to her last 
lost child is more than she can bear. 

[Sure we are that she will have the earnest sympathy of every class- 
mate and our prayer for Divine strengthening under such a load of 
grief — K.] [See " Memorials "] 

Henry R. Stoers '^ (F. A. W. S.), 

was born in Wetumpka, Ala., May 29, 1838. He joined our class in 
its Freshman Year, and remained with us until some time in the Sopho- 
more yeai-. He went from Princeton to the University of Virginia, thence 
to Harvard Law School, which he left in Nov. 1860. He then pursued 
his studies at home, and was licensed to practice law in Wetumpka. He 
was a private in the Wetumpka Light Guards, and was with it at the oc- 
cupation by Southern troops of Pensacola in the early part cf 1861. When 
his company went to Virginia in the 3d Alabama Regiment, he was Second 
Lieutenant. His regiment was ordered to Norfolk, and there, on May 12, 
1861, he was killed by the accidental discharge of a musket in the hands 
of a sentinel. 

An obituary notice of Storrs of the most complimentary character was 
written by his colonel, but the Secretary has not been furnished with a 
copy. Those of us who were associated with Storrs, and respected him for 



* Beceased. 

t Tho precise date of iDirth is unknown, but it is known lliat he was 2i years old at the time of 
his deatli. 



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his many estimable qualities, will bear of big decease with great re- 
gret. [See " Memorials."] 

Frederick Tomkixs (F. C. S.), 

was born April 22, 1838, in Orange, N. J. He prepared for college in 
Montclair, N. J. He joined our class in its Sophomore Year, but left us 
in the Junior Year. He subsequently became a member of the class of 
1860. 

Since leaving college he has been in business with his father, with the 
exception of two years' service in the Army of the Potomac. 

He was married Sept. 30, 1868, to Miss Kittie Neilley, of New York 
City. He has a daughter, Kittie, born July 13, 1869. 

He is one of the firm of Daniel Tomkins & Sons, manufacturers of 
brick, at Stony Point, N. Y. 

He attends the Presbyterian Church in Haverstraw. 

Horace M. White (F. C. S.), 

was born Dec, 25, 1838, in Middletown, Pa. He joined our class in its 
Sophomore Year, but left at the end of that year. After leaving Princeton 
he 'went to Philadelphia, and commenced the study of medicine ifit JeflPer- 
son Medical School. He took partial courses for two years, and full courses 
two years, and graduated in 1861. 

During these four years he was also studying dentistry, and in 1862 he 
commenced its practice in his father's office. 

In Aug., 1862, he received an honorary degree of A. M. from Lafayette 
College, Easton, Pa. In March, 1867, he received the degree of D.D.S. 
(Doctor in Dental Surgery) from the Pennsylvania College of Dental 
Surgeons. He is now engaged in the practice of dentistry in his own 
office. 

He was married Jan. 10, 1867, to Miss Marianne E. Garwood, of 
Jersey City, N. J., and has had one child, a daughter, Kate Anna, born 
Nov. 11, 1867. He desires to be warmly remembered to all. 

Benjamin H, Woolley (F. A. W. S.), 

was born in Lexington, Kentucky, Jan. 5, 1840. He joined our class in 
its Freshman Year and left in the Sophomore Year. 

Since leaving Princeton (he writes) my life has been mostly that of a student. Dar- 
in"' 1860 and '61 I spent some fourteen months at Danville College, Ky. The war pre- 
ve'nted me from finishing the Senior Class studies. After remaining four months with 
the Confederate army, I was sent to Johnson's Island in Lake Erie, where I was impris- 
oned eighteen months. Since my release, I have been at my home principally engaged 
in the study of law. 

He settled after the war in the practice of his profession in Lexington, 
Ky., but for two years past has been residing in Germany. 

E. Hudson Worrall (F. A. W. S.), 
was born in Philadelphia, Oct. 13, 1838, He prepared for college at the 



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Harrisburg Academy. He joined our class in its Freshman Year and left 
in 1857. He adopted the profession of a civil engineer, and was employed 
upon the construction of the Philadelphia and Erie II. R. In May, 1860, 
he became manager of the Sharon Furnace in Mercer Co., Pa., where he 
remained until Aug., 1861. He was then appointed clerk in the Commis- 
sary Department of the Regular Army, and stationed first at Harrisburg, 
then from Feb. to Aug., 1862, at Cairo, 111. 

In Feb., 1864, he became Chief Clerk Quartermaster Department, sta- 
tioned at Buffalo, N. Y., where he remained until March 1866. 

In May, 1866, he resumed engineering, and has been occupied with 
various operations, until in January, 1868, he was appointed Assistant- 
Engineer in charge of the construction of the Ship Canal for the improve- 
ment of the Des Moines and Rock Island Rapids and Illinois River Survey. 
He is now engaged in this work, with his headquarters at Keokuk, Iowa. 

He was married to Miss Helen M. Boude, of Harrisburg, Pa., June 15, 
1865. He has had one son, James Worrali, born June 1, 1866, but who 
died Feb. 2, 1869. 

Worrali attends the Episcopal Church. 

iW. p. Zabriskie (F. C. S.), . 

was born in Paramus, N. J. He joined our class in its Sophomore Year 
and left at the end of it. 

Since leaving college he has studied for the ministry, and is settled at 
Farmer Village, Seneca County, New York, Nothing further is known 
of him. 



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The sketches which follow were prepared by the persons whose 
names they bear — the most intimate and appreciative friends of the 
deceased. The Secretary profoundly regrets that there should be 
any omissions. Friends will however notice, possibly with pain, 
some blanks. Let it be understood in all such cases, that from 
some unexplained cause, the persons appointed to prepare them 
have failed to transmit them. 

The Secretary need scarcely add that the writers are alone 
responsible for their respective communications. For the personal 
history of each, see under his name in the ' Record.' 



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JOHN WITTEN FRIERSON [Obiit May 3, 1863]. 

BY W. B. WEIGHT. 

If there were men in the class whi were admired for their brilliant 
qualities or envied for their success or disliki'd for their ambition, Fuierson 
was not to be numbered among them. But if there were men lo be daily re- 
spected for their good sense and manliness, to be loved for their gentleness 
and sincerity, assuredly he belonged among them. Perhaps the worth of no 
man was less questioned among us than his. Indeed, so few and modest were 
his claims for himself, so unobtrusively did he take part in the studies and 
pleasures of college life, that all were ready to grant him a great deal more 
than he ever asked. His quiet personali'y and reserved manners were known 
by all his classmates to conceal a true and stout character. As for enemies I 
think he had none at all. 

None will fail to recall the tall, slender, erect figure ; the easy saunterin"- 
gait ; the quick quizzical salutation ; the nierrv, half-taunting laugh — the whole 
greeiing with an edge to it, an abruptness, as if he h.id whipped out a rapier 
at you. Though usually reticent, he could tease terribly and none could keep 
the lash of some unhappy joke playing more mercilessly about one's ears. 
Yet he was ever kind, nay, tender at heart. He did not wound, but only ban- 
ter. His healthy, hearty laughter, his sudden and flashing anger, his deep and 
powerful indignation, his simplicity, his unostentatious opinions, his mo?fest 
candor and straight, sharp good sense, as well as the indisposition to be long 
trifled with, were all fine traits. 

His features expressed an habitual self-respect aud self-command. His sym- 
pathies were of considerable breadth, and he was capable of a high and pas- 
sionate enthusiasm. He carried a lurking smile at our little ambitions and could 
never believe the palms were worth the pains. He may have been a little in 
erroi' here. So devoid of self-exaggeration was he, as never to have put forth 
his whole strength. 

In the higher qualities he waS not poor. His self-reliance was genuine and 
he knew how to sheer his way through the perplexities ofactive life. Indeed, 
he was. with all his shyness, rather related to the world of action and energy 
than of speculation. He was fonder of politics than of poetry; of history, 
than of science. Perhaps he was too apt to confound skepticism with infidel- 
ity, speculation with mysticism, an idealist wi h a visionary. Bat his piety 
was gentle, luiaffected, and sincere. Nor did he vary from his religious con- 
victions. Theology returned a satisfactory answer to any questions propound- 
ed by his intellect and in the doctrines of Calvin he heartily and perhaps 
wholesomely acquiesced. In fact, he was throughout conservative ; fond of 
established and determinate customs, institutions, beliefs. Again, he was re- 
markable for the permanency of his regards. There is no better test of the 
soundness of any character. To those whom he had chosen, his fidelity and 
frankness were unimpeachable. But, on the whole, his leading inclination was 
to quietude and seclusion. He loved order, economy, absence of noise and 
flurry. Never was he more happy than when chatting with a solitary friend in 
the old Refectory, with the banjo on his lap. He is truly one of the pleasaut- 
est characters for the present writer to recall, among the many noble comrades ; 
and remembering all his genial ways and manly worth, I cannot but believe 
that with him the class lost one of the truest, dearest, bravest hearts it ever 
called its own. 



THOMAS GOLDTHWAITE [Obiit August 16, 1869]. 

BY * sf * 

GoLrTHWAiTK was one of the youngest of our number, though possessed of 
a mind wonderfully mature for his years. He was of small stature and slight 



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frame, but compact, wiry, tough. With proper care, he ought to have lived long. 
But the vehemence of his nature, which manifested itself in every direction, 
caused him to sacrifice his health from Vc^ry devotion to the Confederacy whose 
failing fortunes he sought to uphold. The fact that during the latter part of 
the war he occupied a position in one of the Bureaus at Richmond instead of 
active duty in the field, made him doubly energetic and doubly faithful. He 
worked day and night, in season and out of season, in order that he might (as 
he once remarked) atone for an enforced absence from the front, by doing the 
work of three men in his office. He could endure immense draughts upon his 
physical energies and likewise tremendous mental pressure, such was the elas- 
ticitv of his mind and body, but he did not reflect that there is a limit to a 
giant's energies, beyond which he cannot safely go. 

It was to be expected of such a nature, that it should be brave. He dis- 
played true courage. We might more properly call it grit. His will was imper- 
turbable. His convictions were immovable. He was no trimmer, no time- 
server. He was as fearless in avowing and maintaining his opinions as he was 
conscientious in forming them. He was afraid of nothing. He displayed an 
almost heroic courage in battling with failing health, in fore-casting future 
contingencies and in the very presence of death. 

GoLDTHWAiTE had excellent judgment, acuteness of perception and good 
powers of discrimination. He was fond of disputation and debate for which 
a wide margin of reading, as well as his own observation and reflection fur- 
nished him abundant matter for illustration. He had a natural taste for inves- 
tigation. He was somewhat fascinated by the free inquiries made by the liberal 
thinkers of the day into the foundations of customs and ideas, and in the 
opinion of some of his friends, became dangerously allured by such writers 
into a similar questioning of first truths. But those friends did not understand 
him. His difficulties in arriving at truth in matters of religious belief were 
not affectations. They arose in his mind naturally. It was his nature to accept 
nothing on trust, which afforded room for investigation. We have reason to 
believe that after going through just such an experience as his nature demand- 
ed, viz. : first, rebellion against authority and dogmas; then, doubt; then, in- 
quiry and investigation, he came back to the Bible truths with a zest and 
appreciation such as comes of only such a sifting. 

We reprobate scepticism when affected or foundationless, but we take it 
to be a sign of a good mind which accepts ideas not from education or by an 
historical faith simply, but because investigated and found true. 

In all social relations, he was admired for his dignity, frankness, cordiality, 
constancy. He did not change his friends. His affections were as abiding as 
earnest. He loved his college and class. He came all the way from Minnesota 
to meet them, though at risk of losing the strengtii that wonderful climate had 
given him. Still, he wanted to be with his old friends, and his letters printed 
elsewhere betray to how great a degree he enjoyed the meeting. He acted as 
Chairman and conducted the business with energy and dispatch. 

It seems strange that one so young, so full of hope, so full of promise, 
should be removed from a world that so sadly needs such a mind and heart, 
but He who gave him his nature and ordered the circumstances of his life and 
death, understands his own purposes and plans better than we and took him at 
the proper time. Surely a life, so noble and pure in its aim, has not gone out 
forever. He still lives — lives to act in a nobler sphere and in better conditions 
to fulfil the purpose of his being. The truth he sought has been found. Life 
to him will be now an eternal enjoyment as well as an eternal activity. May 
we who stand so lovingly gazing into the skies, striving in imagination to fol- 
low him there, be as noble, pure, true, and earnest as he, that so we may 
obtain. 

WILLIAM POTTS LLOYD [Obiit March 26, 1863]. 

BY THOMAS GOLDTHWAITE. 

Lloyd entered as a Sophomore, having previously seivcd as a Freshman at 
Yale. During the interval he had remained at home because of the feebleness 



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of his constitution, which never becaiiae robust; during his college course. 
Perhaps to this cause — a feeble physique — may be owing many of the vagaries 
displayed in liis career. 

We all knew Lloyd. Probably he was the most generally known student 
of his day. His peculiar presence, with his abilities, and the leading part he 
took both in the class and in all the occurrences of his course, commanded 
attention. Nature had wonderfully endowed him with gifts of an unusual 
order. He seemed to be able to do every thing, and with ease, and to partici- 
pate in the emoiions of all classes and conditions of men. 

Tiiere were in him the elements of many men. Still, this very compre- 
hensiveness of his nature was a source of weakness. Temptation came to him 
ill many ways. With a strong, self-sustaining will, his career would have been 
straightforward and consistent, but at the expense of part of his nature, which 
would have been crushed in the effort. 

Acuteness, refinement, sensitiveness, rather than strength or massiveness, 
were his characteristics. And, perhaps the very life he did lead was the one 
best calculated to develop all that was in him. It gave him a deep insight 
into his own nature and into human nature in general. His friends well re- 
member his manner after each recovery of himself — how the whole man seemed 
to have been humbled and strengthened, purified as though by fire. 

The governing principle of his nature was a love of truth and purity. In 
periods of doubt, despondency, or temptation, other characteristics might con- 
trol him, but temporarily only. Many things he did which he despised, and 
the recollection of which through life would have made him a cbastemed 
man. % 

His attachments were warm and lasting. There was in liim nothing of 
rancor, or envy, or malice. He possessed the rare and great power of sympa- 
thy — of judging others by the capacity of like emotion in himself. This it 
was which peculiarly fitted him for the profession whicli he wisely chose after a 
year's deliberation. Indeed, he was fitted for no other. He had looked for- 
ward to it from early infancy, and had almost longed for the time when he 
too could be of service in the cause of truth. In no other profession would 
he have found a proper field of action and scope for the full development of 
his powers. He had already given promise of great usefulness and distinction, 
when death ended his labors and his sorrows. 

In his death, we mourn the loss of one of our brightest members — one cer- 
tain to have reflected distinction on us as a class. And yet, we would rather 
rejoice. Our friend is at peace. His lile could never have been a happy one. 
Doubts, temptations, errors, would have been his portion. And though these 
would have chastened and softened, enabling him to dispel many a wearing 
doubt, and to soothe many an aching heart, though his life would in some 
measure have been what he wished it to be — a sacrifice for the cause of love 
and truth — yet for him there could be no rest, except in the bosom of his 
Master. 



SAMUEL HEPBURN POLLOCK [Obiit, Oct. 25, 1865]. 

BT R. BELVILLE "WATSOX. 

Pollock was, from his earliest boyhood, of a sunny, genial temperament. 
He was more than cheerful. He was one of those rare characters, with whom 
to be happy and light-hearted was a nature. He could not be morose or sad. 
He never looked on the dark side, but always made the best of every thing. 

As was to be expected of such a one, lie was naturally mischievous and 
full of fun. It could be seen in his eye. He was brimful of humor. His 
sense of the ridiculous was very keen, and none could more heartily appreciate 
a joke than he, even at his own expense. Still, he was not satirical He was 
essentially kind, loving, even gentle, forgiving, easily influenced, and yet of so 
strong a will as to brave stout temptations. 

His life from infancy was pure. He had no vicious habit, no inclination to 



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eno-af^e in any thing low or mean. He was generous to a fault. Tlie best 
commentary on his principles is the fact that lie returned from camp pure in 
heart and uncontaminated in Ul'e. 

He was quick in his perceptions of truth, and hence found study an easy 
task • although what is easily gained is often easily lost, and his memory did 
not always retain impressions. He had an interesting, engaging countenance, 
one that at once bespoke your confidence — an impulsive step, great powers of 
conversation, and a warm, cordial manner wliich made him friends every- 
where. 

Durino- his protracted illness, he maintained his habitual cheerfulness. 
Gentleness and affection marked his entire conduct. Patient and subiinssive, 
not a murmur escaped his lips. In his death there was hope. Sorrow, grati- 
tude, and joy met at bis dying bed. He died with a trust in the Eedeemer, 
and WAS joyful in God his Saviour. 



JOSEPH HASWELL KOBINSON [Obiit, Mar. 4, 1868]. 

BY n. EVERETT RITSSELL. 

Of the large number of aspiring men who entered our class at the com- 
mencement of the Junior Year, Eobinson may, in respect of intellectual ma- 
turity and native mother-wit, be justly ranked the first. More than any other 
studeut then in college, he based his essays and debates upon his own observation 
and experience. It need scarcely be said that this is a characteristic quality 
of original minds. His wit, indeed, was not only manifested in this way, but 
proved itself more palpably in those irrepressible puns, and " cutes," and 
quaint expressions, which gave him a proverbial reputation throughout the 
college. 

Robinson's superior power of observation and keen insight into human 
motives and experience were signally displayed in his management of the in- 
tricacies of college politics— a subject of frnittul study to many undergraduates 
in our day. For several weeks he devoted h;-mself to forming combinations 
(having primary reference to the Junior Orator election) which not only re- 
stilted successfully, in spite of obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but laid 
the foundation for a continuous series of successes during the wliole subsequent 
period that those matters remained within the exclusive control of the students. 
In fact, RoniNSON has in an eminent degree the genius that can influence men 
to act together. If he had not been a preacher, he must have been a poli- 
tician — using this word in its honest, primary sense. 

These, then, were the prominent traits of our classmate's character — an 
adaptability to men and circumstances, which gave him, if not in every case 
control, certainly always great influence over both ; a marvellous patience in 
his work, whether the study of books or men, and last of all, an underlying 
common sense, which gave accuracy to his judgment and weight to his 
opinions. 

But these qualities are not to be separated from the religious element of 
Robinson's character; for, from this source they derived life and vigor. He 
did not, could not, separate his religion from his daily life. And, because he 
carried his religion into his li'e in all its details, he kept always an even and 
cheerful countenance, despite the physical malady which all could perceive 
might speedily loosen the silver cord, and of which, perhaps, no one was more 
conscious than himself. It is not unlikely that the depressing influence of 
this afflietive dispensation 'may sometimes have overpowered him, but to his 
college friends he displayed ever the equable temper of a cheerful Christian 
man. 

So it was that our classmate had no misanthrope's frown for those recrea- 
tions which do not come within ariv prohibition of the moral sense of men. 
He joiued in them, indeed, with a zest not surpassed by any, and an earnest- 
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instance — a game qnito unknown at Princeton till our day, and which he was 
among the most active in introducing — was aclinowledged on all sides as a 
thing of college pride. 

KoBiNSON fulfilled the promise of his college career in several years of 
active ministry as a teacher and preacher of the Christian Gospel. A brief 
historical sketch, prepared not long before his death, testifies to the growth 
and prosperous condition of his last parochial charge at Cornwall Landing, 
New York. It was there, that in the midst of his labors he died, lamented 
not only by the immediate parish over which the ordination of men's hands 
had settled him, but, also, by that larger parish of all Christian souls who had 
been within the sphere of his influence, over which the spiritual ordination of 
the Head of the Church had set him — as it sets every earnest, faithful teacher 
of the truth. 



ROBERT TARLETON [Obiit Sept. 28, 1868]. 

BY HUGH L. COLE. 

Tarleton first became known to the writer, some months before the latter 
had matriculated in Princeton. Then began that friendly feeding, which in 
after-days rapidly ripened into a strong and ardent attachment. 

His character, even at that early age, was in all respects of the finest. He 
was unostentatious and simple, yet grave and dignified. His mind was*ingu- 
larly well balanced, and even liis prejudices — which were undeniably strong — 
rarely, if ever, got so much the better of his keen perceptions, and mature 
good sense, as to lead him into error. In manner he was reserved and 
undemonstrative ; but upon occasion he could display all the gentleness and 
tenderness of woman. Many intimate acquaintances he neither sought nor 
desired ; but no man ever loved his friends more devotedly, or was more 
warmly loved by them in return. 

In all things the boy was truly father to the man. His life has been con- 
spicuous for the same stem will, the same strong intellect, the same keen 
sense of duty, the same devoted attachment to those he loved, the same 
brave, tender, self-forgetting friendship, which he showed in college. 

In the war, he did his duty like the good and true man and soldier that 
he was; shrinking from no danger, avoiding no hardshii) or labor incident to 
his humble position, and yet neglecting not to bend his excellent faculties to 
the mastery of those studies wliicli afcerward made him conspicuous as one 
of the most accomplished, as he was certainly one of the noblest, officers of 
his corps. 

The wa,r ended, he undertook the management of one of the family planta- 
tions in Caddo Parish, La, 

After two years of planting (the moderate success attending which was 
immeasurably more than counterbalanced by the loss of his health), he 
returned to Mobile and engaged in business. Of his ultimate success, there 
seemed to be no doubt. His superior faculty for analysis and combination, 
and the rigid integrity of his mind and heart, were sure pledges that he woula 
never degenerate into the mere trader, but take his place among those large- 
hearted men who have elevated mercantile life to the level of the noblest of 
the professions. 

The achievement of this honorable station seemed only a question of time. 
Meanwhile, he was enjoying to the full the pleasures of his beloved little 
family circle. He seemed to lack nothing but health. That was the only 
thing that caused concern. It was the trail of the serpent which marred his 
path, and it could not be effaced. After some weeks of slow and torpid 
manoeuvering, the fatal disease made its final sortie ; and after a short, but dis- 
tressingly painful contest, overcame his poor mortality, and he passed away 
from earth. 

As soon as his illness took a decidedly serious turn, he sent for a clergy- 



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man of the church to which (although not yet in communion iherewitli) ha 
had lono- been sincerely and earnestly attached ; received the consolations of 
religion, and spent the latter hours of his life iu holy preparation for entrance 
into the presence of his Blessed Lord. 

The writer of this sketch was many miles away when the end came. He 
has requested the officiating minister to fill out this most absorbing portion of 
the narrative. "The clergyman alluded to, cannot, in words of his own, 
condense within the space hei-e left, what he would like to say of the last 
hours of Robert Tarleton, as weeping friends gathered with him around the 
table of the Lord. And if he could, no words, as few in number, could as 
fully and correctly tell the whole, as the concluding lines of a collect from the 
Book of Common Prayer. 'He was gathered to his fathers having the testi- 
mony of a good conscience; in the communion of the Catholic Church; in 
the confidence of a certain faith ; in the comfort of a reasonable, religious and 
holy hope ; in favor with God, and in perfect charity with the world.' " 

And so was lost to Alma Mater one of the noblest of her sons, and to the 
class of 1859, one of tiie best beloved of her brotlierhood. " Lost," was it 
said ? No, not lost, for he has but gone before to join the ever increasing 
number of the little band who await in Paradise that final day when those 
who are faithful to the end shall togeiher be received up into glory. 



OTIS BEXJAMIX WEBSTER [Obiit Jan. 26, 1802]. 

BY C. B. MORRIS. 

Webster was a fair specimen of genuine New England character. His 
antecedents would prove this, for he was born of Puritan blood, and reared 
amid the influences of a hallowed Puritan home. Though early bereft of his 
father, he was piously nurtured by a now sainted mother. He was, also, 
surrounded by all those material, as well as social influences, which made his 
character as noble and steadfast and immovable and grand as the Granite 
Hills themselves. 

He had been accustomed, from a child, to grapple with those moral 
problems concerned in our relations to God, which no New England boy could 
fail to hear discussed. 

Hence, he came to college, not only somewhat maturer in years, but riper in 
judgment, clearer in his perceptions of truth, abler to debate and discuss, a 
more original thinker, and a readier writer than scarce any of the class. 

He had early developed, also, a character full of religious sensibilities and 
instincts. He came to college not without an aim, but already consecrated in 
spirit, soul, and body to usefulness. He ever betrayed a tiue manhood, first 
of all recognizing his relations to his Maker, and then living a manly life — 
a life of goodness, purity, truthfulness. 

He was shrewd, and of a practical turn of mind. Prudent, economical, 
generous, diligent in his studies, conscientious in using every means of 
culture. He could talk with great facility of expression — always instructively, 
never in a trifling, foolish way. He had the power of concentration of his 
thoughts or energies on the attainment of an object. 

He formed numberless scliemes of usefulness, and exacted of himself most 
conscientiously their accomplishment. 

A man so full of labor and of thought — incessant in his toil — could not 
expect long to live. His very earnestness to fulfil life's mission drew upon 
his delicate nervous system, and he died of paralysis. He was an overworked 
man. He had but one aim, one ambition, to glorify his Redeemer. No one 
could hear him pray in the college prayer meetings, and fail to be impressed 
with the truth of this. 

He had, I presume, the most extensive acquaintance of any of us with the 
college. The Book Agency which he established brought every member of 
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embrace the opportunity whicb such an acquaintance furnished him, of con- 
versing with the students on the subject of religion. 

His most prominent characteristic was, indeed, his earnestness. He was 
in earnest in every undertalving — earnest in his attachments, in his studies, 
in his religion. He was universally respected as a good man, and an exenipla- 
ry Christian, He stimulated many another disciple to walk more consist- 
ently. 

His death was a translation. He was favored with a prevision of the 
coming glory. As he described it, his face glowed and his language was 
transcendently beautiful. 

It was on the evening of the day before he died. The next morning he 
entered into glory. 



ABRAM ZABRISKIE. [Obiit May 24, 1864]. 



Zabkiskie was lineally descended from one of a family honored in Polish 
history, who found a refuge in this country, and settled in the County of Ber- 
gen, N. J., more than two centuries ago. The blood of the Huguenots and 
Hollanders also flowed in his veins. * 

From childhood he was distinguished by firmness of purpose, strona will, 
clear intellect, and capacity to manage whatever he undertook. The elements 
of a strong character soon find occasions in which to manifest themselves. 
Twice it lell to his lot, in the course of two years, to rescue friends from 
drowning, on both of which occasions he displayed singular coolness, energy, and 
daring. One was his own sister, who narrowly escaped death, in the Summer 
of 1860, at Long Branch, and the other his Colonel, off Hatteras, in December, 
1861. The war afforded him still ampler scope to display the same character- 
istics. He was perfectly self-possessed and codI, when all others were beside 
themselves. He was himself always. Quick in discerning the best means of at- 
taining his purpose, lie was never too hasty in effecting it. To us who remem- 
ber him as a college-mate, his manliness and courage in the war were not sur- 
prising. In his college days, he bore in his features and gait the temper and 
spirit which characterized him afterward. To us, decision of character was 
stamped in his very being. And so when, giving up a projected tour abroad 
notwithstanding the remonstrances of his friends, he said, " I am going to the 
war," all felt that his decision was mialterably made. 

His leading trait was, therefore, self-reliance. This arose not from self- 
conceit, but from a spirit of independence in judgment and action which was 
natural to him. He could take counsel of others, and yet take his own coun- 
sel. He was not swerved from his own deliberate convictions by any ephemeral 
excitement or plausible sophistry. Some have remarked on his taciturnity. 
He was talkative enough when occasion called for it, and abundantly commu- 
nicative of his opinions and views, but habitually reticent, observing, thought- 
ful. His self-command was as characteristic of his tongue as of his other 
powers. He had the rare gift of seasonable speech, with an almost entire ab- 
sence of small-talk. 

Such a man, by blood allied to a noble ancestry, by education supplied with 
the sublimest models for imitation, by his own high ideal actuated with a pure 
ambition to be worthy of his origin and privileges, could not but have made a 
profound impression for good on the men of his day had he lived. As it 
was, long before the usual time, it was found that he could be trusted with 
grave and important interests, and men were attracted by his manliness, pu- 
rity, sincerity, spirit of self-sacrifice, nobility. Though only twenty-three when 
called away, his name and character are cherished by many hundreds of true 
men who read him through and through, who understood his motives, who 
witnessed his exploits, and will not allow the recollection of them to die. 



"L04: MEMORIALS. 



HENRY KIRKE WHITE MUSE. [Obiit Feb. 23, 1858]. 



Muse was a man fortunate in his naming, and still more fortunate in the 
persistent, watchful care of an almost idolizing parent. His name was sug- 
gestive to him of a noble character, and a faithful father was his unwearied 
monitor. Whatever of nobility, gentleness, true manhood there was by nature 
in him, must have been evoked, and whatever there was of antagonism to so 
happy a development, must have been checked and neutralized by two such 
potent influences. In fact, judging from what we saw of him, and from the 
numerous home letters, written without the remotest expectation of their pub- 
lication, one cannot f;iil to see what an inestimable advant-.ige it was to him to 
be connected with such a name and such a father. He became thoroughly 
imbued on the one hand, with the chaste, refined, and elevating sentiments of 
his prototype, and, on the other, seemed ever to live, speak, and act, with home 
in view. 

He conceived the high ambition to become at least as pure in personal 
character, and as serviceable to his generation, as the lamented Kirke White, 
and at the same time to prove himself worthy of such exceptional devotion as 
was shown at home. Those of us who witnessed his dignity of mien, his lofti- 
ness of moral purpose, his habitual kindness and' consideration for others, his 
purity and truthfulness, little imagined that they were the fruits of such in- 
fluences. But Death is a reveal r of secrets. It was only after his decease 
that we were allowed to know through what mistakes and self-flagellations, 
through what patient efforts, through what holy aspirations, through what 
temptations, falls, and restorations, through what monitions, he was moulded 
to the form in which we knew him. Possibly, others of our number were as 
single as he in their purpose for life, but in his case the ruling passion is, be- 
yond controvers}', unconsciously betrayed in the very freedom of his home 
correspondence. Through all temptations, there was abiding with him the 
strong desire to be of use to his race. He regarded his college course but one 
means of preparation. Heart-culture seemed to him equally important. He 
aimed to make himself graceful, attractive, worthy of confidence, so as the 
more readily to reach his fellow-men. And if his course in college was an 
augury of the coming years, there was certainly a goodly promise of abund- 
ant influence for good. He commanded the respect of his fellow-students. 
He gained the earnest affection of a large number. His influence was always 
on the side of right, and he carried with him in his judgments those who had 
learned to confide in his wisdom and integrity. He was modest and retiring 
by nature, but could shake it off when necessity demanded, and showed his 
strength of character by his habitual boldness in standing up for the right. 

He was taken from us just as his character was unfolding in beautiful pro- 
portions, and in a way unexpected to him and to us. But we believe that his 
very death proves that the (ireat Refiner saw in him the gold in its purity, 
and, as Lloyd said at our Triennial, "took him when he wanted him above." 

The world, it is true, needs such a character, but God understands his own 
designs, and it is not for us to murmur or criticise the Divine procedure. He 
died amid scenes shocking to ns and to many, but in great peace, leaving an 
"example that we should follow his steps." 



Howell. 



Broadway. 



MltmoxxaiB. 



PROFESSOR 



MEMOEIALS. lOY 



I. PROFESSOR GIGER [Obiit Oct. 11, 1865]. 



AN HISTORICAL SKETCH. 



Key. George Musgrave Giger, D.D., was until very lately a 
n?embsr of the Faculty of Princeton College, and at the time of 
his death bearing the title of Emeritus Professor of Latin in that 
Institution. He died of consumption, on Wednesday of last week, 
in the forty-fourth year of his age, having been born in Philadel- 
phia on the 6th of June, 1822. He entered the College at Prince- 
ton in the autumn of 1838, and was admitted to the first degree in 
the Arts at the Commencement in 1841. He was one of the dis- 
tinguished scholars of his class. The Avriter well remembers the 
day when, with himself and others, many of whom have gone to 
the better land, Dr. Giger was matriculated in the Theological 
Seminary at Princeton. He was then ver_y youthful in his ap- 
pearance, and seemed more like the candidates who came to enter 
College, than those who were beginning the graver and more diffi- 
cult studies of the Theological Hall. But a very short time con- 
vinced all that this youth was prepared for all the work before 
him. He was a diligent student, reading the old Latin treatises on 
theology with great ease, and making new acquisitions in the 
languages constantly ; and, following closely the course of study 
prescribed, he graduated in 1844, with much honor to himself, and 
with unusual fulness and completeness of preparation for the min- 
istry, or for the office of educator, to which he had already de- 
voted his life. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of 
Baltimore, and ordained by the Presbytery of New Brunswick. 
He filled successively the post of Tutor, Adjunct Professor, and 
Professor in the College of New Jersey, and left the place of his 
labors only when failing health admonished him that it was time 
to rest. He was a successful instructor, beloved by his pupils, and 
respected and trusted by his colleagues in the faculty. He 
preached frequently, and gave much gratuitous service to the 
Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church in Princeton, composed of 
colored people, where his memory is warmly cherished. For 
more than a year his health had been declining, and he died in 
great peace, at the house of his uncle, Rev. Dr. Musgrave, in 
Philadelphia. The funeral services were performed by the Rev. 
Dr. Maclean, President, and Drs. Atwater and Duffield, Professors 
in the College, Dr. Maclean paying a hearty and affectionate tribute 
to the memory of his deceased friend and associate. Dr. Giger was 
ardently devoted to the interests of the College with which he was 
so long connected, and remembered it in the disposition of his pro- 



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perty. He bequeathed to it his entire library, and gave also to it 
by his will the sum of thirty thousand dollars^ to establish a Profes- 
sorship in the College, the legacy to be paid at the death of his 
uncle. — From the Pre&bvterian. 



A MEMORIAL OF GEORGE MUSGRAVE GIGER, D.D. 

BY W. A. McATEE. 

One of the pleasantest memories of my Princeton life is the friendliness of 
the greeting I received from Professor Gigkr when I applied for admission to 
College. There was something so reassuring in his kindly grasp of the hund, 
and in a word or two of welcome, tliat my natural embarrassment under the 
circumstances was quickly dissipated. I could not but be grateful to a man 
whose bearing had given me confidence in a moment of self-distrust, nor with- 
hold my respect from a man who had treated me, stranger though I was, with 
so much consideration. 

Almost courtly in his manners, it needed but little intimacy with him to 
convince one that his courtesies were but the expression of genuine good feel- 
ing. One of the severest tests of true politeness is the treatment of those 
Avhom we esteem beneath ourselves, and it sliould not go unrecorded that Pro- 
fessor Gigkr's manner was as bland and ceremonious toward servants and in- 
feriors as toward those whose station was equal or superior to his own. Re- 
grets conld not be deeper than those felt by this class at his untimely end. 
One could not but note the warmth of admiration with which they regarded 
his virtues, nor the genuineness of their sorrow at the loss of one whose gentle 
bearing toward them had won their heartfelt love. 

If regard for the feelings of others made him a man of uncommon courtesy, 
regard for their welf.ire made him a man of uncommon benevolence. A warm 
heart led him to sympathize with the suffering in their misfortune, and to do 
whatever lay in his power for their relief. To the extent of his ability he 
was always ready with material aid, and his kindly words of encouragement 
and cheer were perhaps more useful still to any who were yet disposed to test 
the efficacy of self-help. 

In the frigid atmosphere of Princeton we had but little opportunity to 
mark the social qualities of our professors. But those who felt themselves 
thus deprived of a fruitful source of profit and enjoyment, were not long in 
discovering that in one quarter at least their advances would be welcomed and 
encouraged. The friendliness of disposition, the cordiality of manner, play- 
fulness and humor of the ready flow of talk, which marked the subject of this 
sketch, won for him the hearty good-will of all who messed with him or passed 
an occasional hour in his inviting study. 

Notwithstanding his decidedly social disposition, he led the life of a recluse. 
lie stood entirely aloof from general society, and found recreation iu change 
of employment. He was one of the most industrious of men. With the in- 
struction of three classes in one of the languages, together with the labor of 
Clerk to the Faculty and Librarian of the College, most men would have had 
their time fully occupied. But he found time to translate into English the 
elaborate work of Turretine on Theology, which is yet in MS., and also to 
make large collections of materials for a series of biographies of Princeton 
Alumni, which it is to be hoped will fall into competent hands so that the work 
may be carried on to completion. He occupied a portion of every day in en- 
larging his acquaintance with the best ancient and modern authors, and in the 
study of such questions of a social or political nature as happened to engage 
the attention of the public mind at home or abroad. Neither the extent' nor 
the accuracy of his scholarship were appreciated, probabl}', by those who met 
him only in the class-room. Possibly he entertained an erroneous theory in 
regard to the details of professorial duty. Certainly he had cultivated an ac- 



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quniiitance with the Classics, History, Political Science, and Theology, which, 
in its ranf^e and accuracy, would have done credit to any scholar. 

Doubtless, he h:id his faults, like other men. But nil nisi honum. Nor 
was T set to dissect but to revive, and if I shall have succeeded in recalling to 
mind those qualities of our deceased instructor and friend by which we learned 
to know and to love him, I believe my duty will have been discharged. 

Had my classmates been permitted to see his inner lie as it was revealed to 
me in the generous intimacy of unreserved friendship during my subsequent 
connection with the College, they would perhaps feel as strongly as I do that 
justice to his memory could only be done by a I'ar more elaborate portraval of 
his character than is here attempted. I know they could not have beheld so 
much that was purest, gentlest and best pass away from earth without mingling 
their tears with mine over the bier, and with me gazmg long and sadly into the 
tomb. 

Somewhat below the medium height, singularly erect, with deep chest and 
muscular frame, uniformly clad in a suit of black, the very picture of neatness 
and precision, we shall never be at a loss to recall the soldier-like figure of 
Professor Gigkr. His face could sc:ircely be called pleasing when in repose, 
but its rigidity would often be relaxed, and a fine smile of kindliness and 
humor Avould play about his mouth or sparkle in his eye. Though generally 
walking with eyes fixed on the ground, he never failed to recognize students 
or other acquaintances whom he met, and to greet them with a most deferen- 
tial bow and a cheerful word. In his outward deportment, as in his inner life, 
he would furnish a model for imitation, and few of us but could find somewhat 
in his attainments and his character to stimulate our activities and to mirify 
our lives. His memory will never cease to be cherished at our Ahna filter, 
both for the devotion of his entire life to her service and for the munificent 
benefiiction which was the crowning evidence of his attachment to her inter- 
ests. But those who know only of his deeds will underestimate the man, and 
his memory will be more fragrant to those who came into personal contact with 
him than to those who only hear the recital of his acts, or profit by the gener- 
ous liberality of his bequests. 

Few men could be more reluctant than he to obtrude their religious expe- 
riences upon the notice of others, but this sketch ought not to be closed with- 
out the oijservation thai his faith was a most ardent one, and hi« life a living 
enistle which could be read of all men. The hope which had sustained him 
during life did not prove deceptive in death, and his meeting with the king of 
terrors was without alarm, since he went down into the dark valley in the full 
assurance that they who sleep in Christ shall rise again. 



II. PROFESSOR HOPE [Obiit Dec. 17, 1859]. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 



Professor Hope departed this life at his residence at Priuceton, 
suddenly, on Saturday, the 17th instant. For some days before 
his death, he had not been quite as well as usual, and he had him- 
self remarked upon symptoms of decay, which were not perceptible 
by others. None thought, however, of his being in immediate dan- 
ger. On Friday evening he sat and conversed with his family and 
with friends who called, with his customary cheerfulness and ap- 
peared in better health and spirits than previously. His physician 
saw him on Saturday morning, and thought him to be improving, 
prescribing only some simple remedies. In the middle of the morn- 



110 MEMORIALS. 



iug he was suddenly seized with a fit of suffocation, produced by the 
extension of the neuralgia, with which he was afflicted to the heart. 
He remarked to his wife that he was dying, " The pins are taken 
from the tabernacle and it is falling to pieces." He spoke of his 
children ; commended them and his wife to the love of a compas- 
sionate Saviour, and repeated the lines, 

" A wretched, poor, and helpless worm, 
On thy kind arms I f;ill ; 
My Lord, mj life, my sacrifice. 
My Jesus and my all." 

The physician was promptly summoned, but by the time that he 
arrived Professor Hope was breathing his last. 

The funeral was appointed for Tuesday morning at 114- o'clock. 
The principal places of business in the town were closed. The 
trustees of the college attended in a body. The services were held 
in the college chapel. They were begun with singing the hymn, 

" How blest the righteous when he dies ! " 

This was followed with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Hodge and the 
hymn, 

" Oh, for the death of those 
Who slumber in the Lord ! " 

Dr. Maclean pronounced the address from the words, " Be still 
and know that I am God." 

He remarked, in opening, upon the peculiarity of God's provi- 
dence toward the Institution. It was founded in faith and prayer, 
with hope of the divine blessing and with the view of training up 
men to do good service in Christ's kingdom. And yet it had to 
pass through a series of heavy trials at the outset. Its first presi- 
dent was cut off in a single year, its second in a few weeks, others 
were suffered to continue but a brief term in office. Three of its 
early Professors in Mathematics and Philosophy, though they gained 
high distinction, died at the eai-ly age of forty-three. Yet God had 
always stood by this Institution raising up others to fill the breaches 
This had been an eventful year in the history of the Col- 
lege. One of its former Presidents, Dr. Carnahan, had died, and a 
former associate in the Faculty, Dr. J. W. Alexander, the prede- 
cessor in his particular department of him who has now been taken, 
and now Professor Hope has followed them. 

Fit notice was taken of the distinguished ability with which 
Professor Hope managed the instruction of his department, the im- 
portance of the services which he had rendered to the College in 
many ways, particularly in the matter of its endowment (in which 
matter it was remarked that he had done more on its behalf than 
any other person had ever done), of his amiable and social quali- 
ties, and especially his ardent and devoted piety and the interest 
taken by him in all that related to the spiritual welfare of the Col- 
lege. The services closed with prayer by Dr. Forsyth and the 
benediction by Dr. McDowell. 



MEMORIALS. Ill 



Professor Hope was born in Pennsylvania in 1812 ; graduated 
at Jefferson College; pursued a theological course at Princeton 
and medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His first 
field of labor was the mission at Singapore, where, after two years 
his health was so broken down that he had to be carried on sljipboard, 
and it was feared that he would not reach this country alive. Re- 
covering his health in some measure after his retnrn, he was for 
awhile engaged in the service of the American Colonization Society, 
then Assistant Secretary of the Board of Education, and upon the 
resignation of the Secretary, his successor. Finally, he was chosen 
Professor of Belles-Lettres in the College of New Jersey, where he 
continued for the last fourteen years of his life. — Presbyterian of 
Bee. 24, 1859. 



A MEMORIAL OF MATTHEW B. HOPE, D.D. 

BY J. B. KENNEDY. 

No one of the Professors was more generally beloved by our class than 
Dr. Hope. He was a striking contrast to them all, in almost every particular. 
In personal appearance, in mental organization, and in his method of inltruc- 
tion, he may be said to have been most peculiar. Dr. Hope was a singular man. 
There was so much individuality about him ; it was seen in every thing he did; 
it underlay his forms of expression. That it was an unaffected singularity, we 
are all convinced. That he was entirely candid and sincere with it, is proven 
by the fact that he was just as singular in the dying hour as before, for his last 
expression is said to have been : " The pins have dropped out and the taber- 
nacle is falling to pieces." In a word, we may say, it was his very naturalness 
that made him singular. He detested parade and affectation, and, of all men, 
was preeminently himself. He tried to do every thing in the most direct way 
and to express every conception in the simplest language — with a horror for 
big words when small ones would answer. 

We remember our Professor, also, as a sensiiive man. He felt a slight 
keenly and appreciated a favor highly. He therefore prized in a more than 
usual degree the esteem and love of his pupils. 

Then, over all this, was the mellowing tinge of grace. We all gratefully 
remember his goodness., as well as his genius. We can never forget the tender- 
ness and pathos of his prayer-meeting talks. We may instance, more particu- 
larly, those on the " Prodigal Son," during the awakening just before the close 
of our course. 

He never enjoyed good health. Never of a robust constitution and of an 
exquisite nervous organization, his constant mental activity begotten thereof, 
reacted on his nervous system with terrible effect. Few men have been as 
active, while suffering, as he. He was mellowed, however, and made " per- 
fect through sufferings." 

His aim as a Professor was expressed in the word so often on his lips — 
Education. It was education with him, more than instruction — not pouring in, 
but drawing out. The question was not, " What does our author think ? " but 
" What do you think ? " We think none of us could fail to express gratitude 
as we remember Dr. Hope's earnest efforts to teach us and help us to think for 
ourselves. He was a true man and a true teacher. 

Our class relations with Dr. Hope were more than pleasant. Although due 
preparation for one of his cross-examination recitations consumed more time 
and obliged to a wider and deeper study than any other of our college duties, 
we all felt it a privilege to go to his room. Our class were enthusiastic in their 
admiration of him and gratefully appreciated his efforts for our good. We 



112 MEMORIALS, 



loved him. And we have reason to believe it was reciprocated, and that his 
interest in us was more than a common one. In turning to the first page of 
his Rhetoric, we find the inscription in these words : 

" To the students of the College of New Jersey, and especially to the Class 
of 1859 — for whose instruction this treatise was first printed — itis now respect- 
fully dedicg-ted by their Friend and Listrudor, the Author." 

None of us can fail to remember his closing, earnest, almost personal en- 
treaty to the Class in summing up his brief but delightful course on "Politi- 
cal Economy," wherein he besought at least one of the class to make that de- 
partment a life study, adding, " What a noble and generous return it would 
make to any one who would make the determination." 

It seems, therefore, to be specially appropriate that in the establishment 
by our Class of a " Class Prize Foundation " in the College, it should have 
been in the line of the Belies-Lettres. And may this offering as well as these 
humble memorial lines, serve in the future to record our gratitude to Dr. Hope 
as a class ; to revive his blessed memory and to stimulate us to labor and suf- 
fer, as he did, for the good of our fellow-men. 



Oriie €la50 0f 1S59 



PRIZE F O U N 1) A T I O is^ . 



®he (Illa00 of 1S59 Brhe iTinm&atioii. 



Our class Prize Foundation originated in an effort to assist the Colleo-e 
Endowment Fund at a time when such help seemed necessary to the very 
existence of the Institution. It was in its inception to have been a 
" Scholarship " Foundation, and a small amount of money was collected and 
paid to the Trustees for that purpose. 

In the mean while, so many friends rallied to the support of the college, 
that a " Scholarship " seemed no longer imperatively needed and our origi- 
nal plan was accordingly changed into that of a Prize. Even in this form 
it has required a long time hoth to raise the amount desired and to perfect 
the Plan of the Foundation. By a reference to the " Minutes of Class- 
meetings," it will be seen that the plan as finally adopted at our late meet- 
ing is very different from that adopted only a year ago. 

The following paper will serve to explain the change of base. It is the 
Report of the Committee appointed June, 1868, to confer with the Board 
of Trustees in reference to the plan adopted at that meeting, andfie as fol- 
lows : 

ClasSxMates : At a meeting held June, 1868, the undersigned were appointed to lay 
before trie College Trustees, the plan of our Class Prize Foundation as adopted at that 
meeting, and to make arrangements for a consummation of the matter by the time of 
the Decennial meeting. Your committee accordingly prepared a paper, -wherein the 
action of the class was duly set forth-^which paper was presented to the Board through 
Henry M. Alexander, Esq. The Trustees appointed a committee, consisting of Presi- 
dent McCosH, Dr. Hall, and Mr. Alexander, to confer with your committee and em- 
powered to arrange all prehminary details prior to the Decennial meeting. 

The Trustees' Committee, while expressing its entire wilhngness to acquiesce in the 
plan of the Prize as presented by your committee, should the class ultimately decide to 
press it, still very earnestly but kindly suggested the propriety of a modification, so as 
to enlarge its scope and utility. 

Eepeated consultations were held by the two committees until your committee agreed 
to recommend to the class an entire modification of the original Plan, both as to its 
scope and as to the conditions annexed thereto. 

In the first place, we agreed to recommend that the Prize should be awarded to the 
member of the senior class who should pass the best examination m English Lilera- 
hire and Essay icriling, instead of Essay writing simply, as in the original plan. As 
this modification would but increase the importance of our Prize in the college cur- 
riculum, your committee could not hesitate to accept it. Still further to emphasize their 
generous regard for our efforts in this direction, the Trustees' committee gave us as- 
surance of the speedy erection of a chair of English in cordial cooperation with our 
Foundation. • vfl . 

In the second place, your committee, in their endeavor to harmonize the modifica- 
tion of our plan just mentioned with the original scheme, soon saw what insuperable 
difficulties would be met if the class were to reserve to itself any such control ot the 
Trust as contemplated in that plan. It would surely prove to be an impossibility to ob- 
tain a permanent class committee, both competent and able to command the time so a3 
annually to supervise an examination. This difficulty would only be increased when m 
the course of time this duty would be laid on an Alumni committee. _ On this ground 
alone, not to mention economy and other reasons, the profound conviction was wrought 
in your committee, that it would be far better to entirely divorce the class from the matter 
and to leave the Foundation where it should be, to the exclusive care of the Irusteeb. 
We agreed therefore to recommend that the matter of the government ot the i?oun- 
dation be left with the Board of Trustees and that only such conditions be annexed to 



116 CUE PRIZE. 

the Trust as are obviously necessary (1) to secure the permanent association of our class 
name therewith and (2) to secure the proper publication of it to competitors. 

Your committee, therefore, propose to the class for its acceptance and adoption the 
following modification of the plan of the Prize Foundation, as a substitute for the ori- 
ginal plan adopted June, 1868. It is in the form of a Resolution, and is as follows : 

Resolved, That the Secretary be authorized, in the name of the Class of 1859, to 
convey to the Board of Trustees of the College of New Jersey, the sum of $2,000 in 
trust, for the establishment of a Prize Foundation, under the following conditions, to 
wit : 

I. The style of the Trust shall be—" The Class of 1859 Prize Foundation." 

II. The Prize shall be publicly awarded to the member of the Senior Class whose 
shall be adjudged to be worthy thereof, after an examination in English Literature and 
Essay Writing, conducted in the manner and under such regulations as shall be here- 
after adopted by the Board of Trustees. 

III. A list of all who have received the Prize shall be published in the Triennial 
Catalogues of the College, and the regulations adopted for the Government of the Prize 
in the several Annual Catalogues. 

The plan thus proposed has already been cordially assented to by the Trustees' Com- 
mittee. 

The Preamble of the Resolution specifies the amount of the Foundation and provides 
for its proper conveyance to the Trustees. The 1st condition settles the name by 
which the trust shall be known. The 2d condition indicates the nature of the Prize, 
its recipient and also provides for a public award. The 3d condition provides that the 
public shall be duly informed, at proper intervals, of the conduct of the Trust. 

Sure that the new plan will commend itself to all, your committee cannot conclude 
without expressing their gratitude at the approaching consummation of a scheme which 
has engaged so much of the attention and interest of the Class. We can see nothing 
but good to result from it for all coming time. All of which is respectfully submitted. 
p _. ,y -(■ ^ H. Everett Russell, \ 

nnce on, • •> Sigried, \ S. Richards Col well, >• Com. of Conference. 

June 29, 1869. ^ Alfred H. Kellogg-. ) 

As stated in the " Minutes of Class-meetings," this report with, the plan recommend- 
ed, was adopted. 

It only remained, therefore, for the " Committee of Conference " officially to inform 
the Board of Trustees of the action of the Class. 

The following letter was at once prepared and transmitted to the Board through 
Mr. Alexander. 

PRINCETON, N. J., JUNE 29, 1S69. 

To THE Board of Trustees of the College of New Jersey : 

Gentlemen: At a meeting of the Class of 1859 held June 24, 1868, the undersign- 
ed were appointed a " Committee of Conference" — charged with the specific duty of 
conferring with your Honorable Body, more particularly with reference to the consum- 
mation of a Prize Plan. The undersigned in a paper duly laid before your Honorable 
Body by Henry M. Alexander, Esq., at your semi-annual session, set forth at length the 
plan of our projected Prize Foundation — the said plan being hereto annexed in a paper 
marked "A."* Your Honorable Body was pleased to appoint a committee, empower- 
ed to arrange all details with the class of 1859, looking to a consummation of the mat- 
ter at the commencement of 1869 — the time of our Decennial meeting. 

At a meeting of the Class held Tuesday, June 29, 1869, the report of the " Commit- 
tee of Conference " already approved by the " Committee of Trustees" was adopted and 
ordered to be transmitted to your Honorable Body as the plan of our Class Prize 
Foundation. The said report was in the form of a resolution and is as follows. f . . . 

Such is the plan of our Foundation as finally decided upon and which we have been 
instructed to lay before your Honorable Body. We hope that it will afford as much grati- 
fication to yourselves in accepting the charge of this Trust, as it does to the Class of 1859 
in presenting it. 

In founding this Prize, the Class have had two ends in view (1) to benefit the col- 
lege by endeavoring to stimulate scholarship and general culture and (2) in an empha- 
tic manner to express our devotion to the college and leave behind us a proof which 
might forever attest it. 



* This paper is the same as will be found in minutes of class-meetings under date of June 24, 1S69. 
t See EesoUition in the previous Report. 



OUR PRIZE. 117 

On receiving an official notification that your Honorable Body is prepared to accept 
our Foundation with the simple conditions annexed thereto, we are prepared to con- 
vey to the proper officer the sum of $1850,— the amount of the balance of our Founda- 
tion which remains unpaid. Eesolution No. 6 in the plan "A "... . will explain this 
balance. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 

Signed by the Class " Com. of C'onference." 

Later in the day, the following communication was received from the 
clerk of the Board of Trustees : 

PRINCETON, June 29, 1S69. 
Gentlemen of the Class of 1859 : It gives me great pleasure to communicate to 
you the enclosed extract from the Minutes of the Board of Trustees of the College of 
New Jersey. 

Yours most respectfully, 

E. E. Craven, 

Clerk of the Board of Trustees. 

The enclosure mentioned in Dr. Craven's note reads as follows : 

Extract from the Minutes of the Board of Trustees of the College of New Jersey, in 
session at Princeton, N. J., June 29, 1869. 

The foregoing communication from the Class of 1859 was read and ordered to be 
entered on the minutes ; and on motion it was 

Resolved, That the Board of Trustees has received with great pleasure the communi- 
cation of the Class of 1859, and that the Trust therein proposed be accepted according 
to the terms contained in said communication. 

Resolved, That the Clerk of the Board be instructed to communicate this aHion to the 
Class of 1859 and to inform the Committee that the funds will be received by the Trea- 
surer of the College, and appropriated as directed by the communication. 
I certify that the above is a true copy from the minutes of the Board. 

E. E. Craven, 

Clerk of the Board. 

The payment in full of the amount of the Foundation called for by the 
terms of the contract has been made, as certified by vouchers in the hands of 
the Secretary, so that the contract is completed and the Foundation now 
in operation. 

The following is a list of the thirty-nine contributors to the Foundation, 
viz. : Beekman, $50 ; Brearley, SlOO ; Cole, ^25 ; Colwell, $155 ; 
CoNDiT, 150; CoNovER, $100; Cornell, 15; Davis, $25; Dickson 
$77.50 ; Glover, |25 ; G-oldthwaite, $25 ; Hodge, $77.50 ; Holden, $50 ; 
Kellogg, $150; Kennedy, $50; Ketcham, $122; A. Lyon, $25; T. 
Lyon, $25; McAtee, $50; McKaig, $50; Magie, $100; Morris, $60; 
Oliphant, $50; Reese, $25; Robinson, $20; Russell, $50; Stump, 
$77.50; TARLETONf $25; Watson, $15.50; WEBSTERf $25; Weidman 
$20; Williams, $100; Yerger, $50; Black, $5; " A Friend," through 
Green, $50 ; MiLLsf $5 ; Tomkins, 150 ; White, $10 ; and Wokeall, 
$25.— Total $2000. 

The Trustees left the arrangements for the Prize during the present 
year in the hands of the Faculty. That body has just published the fol- 
lowing order, viz. : 

The interest of $2000, will be given to the member of the Class of 1870 who may 
write the best Essay on " The Genius of Shakspeare " and stand the best exammation on 
" The Poetical Literature of the Elizabethan Age." The Essay must be given m on or 
before May 1st, 18*70, and the examination will be held in June. 



tition 



The Class will await with interest the result of the first year's compe- 



t Memorial subscription mnde "in his name " by his surviving family. 



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TABLE NO. II 

ORDER OF AGE. 



I. Graduates. Born. 

1 Edgar, July 31, 1833 

2 Keoyon, Dec. 4, 1833 

3 Webster, Jan. 3, ] 834 

4 Sykes, Feb. 19, 1835 

5 Robiuson, Jan. 30, 1836 

6 Morris, Oct, 14, 1836 

7 Lloyd, 1837 

8 Woodbridge, Feb. 26, 1837 

9 Stump, Mar. 17, 1837 

10 Glower, May 15, 1837 

11 Condit, May 19, 1837 

12 Clark, Aug. 23, 1837 

13 Kellogg, Sept. 10, 1837 

14 A. Lyon, Jan. 11, 1838 

15 Watson, May 7, 1838 

16 Cole, May 21, 1838 

17 VanSyckel, June 6, 1838 

18 Tarleton, June 20, 1838 

19 McAtee, June 25, 1838 

20 Frierson, Aug. 12, 1838 

21 Oliphant, Aug. 24, 1838 

22 Janvier, Sept. 2, 1838 

23 Dougal, Sept. 20, 1838 

24 Reese, Oct. 3, 1838 

25 Pollock, Oct. 23, 1838 

26 Hodge, Oct. 24, 1838 

27 Holden, Nov. 3, 1838 

28 Davis, Dec. 30, 1838 

29 Mhoon, Feb. 10, 1839 

30 Colweli, Mar. 24, 1839 

31 Ketcham, Mar. 28, 1839 

32 Humphreys, June 3, 1839 

33 Cornell, June 11, 1839 

34 Rodney, June 18, 1839 

35 Williams, June 18, 1839 

36 Beekman, July 2, 1839 

37 Dickson, .' July 14, 1839 

38 Kennedy, Aug. 8, 1839 



Born. 

39 Weidman, Aug. 8, 1839 

40 Russell, Aug. 31, 1839 

41 Conover, Oct. 3, 1839 

42 T. Lyon, Nov. 5, 1 839 

43 Brearley, Jan. 6, 1840 

44 Ward, Feb. 1, 1840 

45 Yerger, Feb. 11, 1840 

46 Cleveland, Feb. 29, 1840 

47 Hodgson, Mar. 14, 1840 

48 McKaig, Mar. 18, 1840 

49 Gray May 4, 1840 

50 Wright, Sept. 29, 1840 

51 Goldthwaite, Jan. 13, 1841 

52 Magie, Jan. 15, 1841 

53 A. Zabriskie, Feb. 18, 1841 

54 Craig, Feb. 22, 1841 

IL Non-Gkaduates. % 

1 Courts, Feb. 14, 1836 

2 Robertson, 18S7 

3 Cossitt, Oct. 1 6, 1837 

4 Black, Nov. 6,1837 

5 Nelson, Dec. 31. 1837 

6 A. Moore, Mar. 3, 1838 

7 Muse, Mar. 23, 1838 

8 Tomkius, Apr. 22, 1838 

9 Storrs, May 29, 1838 

10 Worrall, Oct. 13, 1838 

11 Archer, Nov. 11, 1838 

12 White, Dec. 25, 1838 

13 Lumpkin, Apr. 22, 1839 

14 Latham, Sept. 13, 1839 

15 Mills, Sept. 21,1839 

16 D. Moore, Oct. 2, 1839 

17 Woolley, Jan. 5,1840 

18 Green, Oct. 9, 1840 

19 Mitchell, Jan. 1, 1841 



TABLE NO. Ill 

ORDER OP MARRIAGE. 



I. Graduates, Harried. 

1 Yerger, Nov. 1, 1860 

2 Brearley, Jan. 24, 1861 

3 Holden, Feb. 6, 1862 

4 Ketcham, Oct. 16, 1862 

5 Sykes, Apr. 16, 1863 

6 Stump, May 18, 1863 

7 Hodge, June 2, 1863 

8 Morris, June 10, 1863 

9 Weidman, Sept. 7, 1864 

10 Edgar, Nov. 3, 1864 



Married. 

11 Tarleton, Nov. 29, 1864 

12 Kenj-on, Apr. 4, 1 865 

13 Hodgson, Apr. 16, 1S65 

14 Robinson, Apr. 27, 1865 

15 Russell, Oct. 11, 1865 

1 6 Dougal, Jan. 4, 1866 

17 Craig, Jan. 11, 1866 

18 Watson, Dec. 13, 1866 

19 Cole, Oct. 9, 1867 

20 Oliphant, Oct. 17, 1867 



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3farried 

21 Humphreys, Dec. 12, 1867 

22 Reese, Feb. 12, 1868 

23 Dickson, Apr. 22, 1868 

24 Clark, Jan. 13, 1869 

25 Colwell, May 19, 1869 

26 Rodney, June 8, 1869 



II. Nox-Graduates. Married. 

1 Lumpkin, Feb. 14, 1861 

2 Archer, July 28, 1864 

3 Worrall, June 15, 1865 

4 Green, Nov. 9, 1865 

5 White, Jan. 10, 186V 

6 Tomkins, Sept. 30, 1868 



TABLE ISrO. IV 

OEDER OF CHILDREN BORN". 



I. To Graduates, £orn. 

1 Brearley, (1) * Oct. 22, 1862 

2 Yerger, (1) Nov. 1, 1862 

3 Holden, (1) Aug. 3, 1863 

4 Brearley, (2) Nov. 8, 1863 

5 Morris, "(1) Feb. 18, 1864 

6 Sykes, (1) Apr. 25, 1864 

7 Hodge (1) Nov. 12, 1864 

8 Yerger, (2) June 14, 1865 

9 Weidman, (1) * June 17, 1865 

10 Holden, (2) July 17, 1865 

11 Sykes, (2) July 24, 1865 

12 Tarleton, (1) Sept. 12, 1865 

13 Edgar, (1) Sept. 15, 1865 

14 Hodgson, May 12, 1866 

15 Weidman, (2) June 24, 1866 

16 Russell, July 10, 1866 

17 Brearley, (3) * Oct. 1, 1866 

18 Tarleton, (2) Oct. 18, 1866 

19 Edgar, (2) Jan. 23, 1867 

20 Kenyon, Jan. 27, 1867 

21 Yerger, (3) Apr. 13, 1867 

22 Craig, Sept. 5, 1867 



£orn. 

23 Watson,* Sept.14, 1867 

24 Morris, (2) Oct. 3, 1867 

25 Holden, (3) Feb. 18, 1868 

26 Hodge, (2) Mar. 22, 1868 

27 Robinson, June 11, 1868 

28 Yerger, (4) July 11,1868 

29 Weidman, (3) Sept. 3, 1868 

30 Tarleton, (3) Sept, 29, 1868 

31 Humphreys, 

32 Brearley, (4) Jan. 21, 1869 

II. To Non-Graduates. 

1 Lumpkin, (1) * 

2 Lumpkin, (2) 

3 Lumpkin, (3) 

4 Archer, Sept. 28, 1865 

5 Green, (1) Oct. 17, 1866 

6 Worrall,* June 1, 1866 

7 White, Nov. 11,1867 

8 Green, (2) Apr. 30, 1868 

9 Tomkins, July 13, 1869 



The child deceased. 



TABLE No. V 

ORDER OF DECEASE. 



I. GRADUATES. Died. 

(1) Webster Jan. 26, 1862 

(2) Lloyd March 26, 1863 

(3) Frierson May 3, 1863 

(4) A. Zabriskie May 24, 1864 

(5) Pollock Oct. 25, 1865 

(6) Robinson March 4, 1868 

(7) Tarleton Sept. 28, 1868 

(8) Goldthwaite Aug. 16, 1869 



II. NON-GRADUATES. Died. 

(1) Courts July 19, 1858 

(2) Muse Feb. 23, 1858 

(3) Storrs ' May 12, 1861 

(4) Anderson During war 

(5) Robertson June 6, 1862 

(6) Cossitt March 20, 1863 

(7) Mills Dec. 29, 1863 

(8) A. Moore June 3, 1864 



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TABLE Nio. VI. 

STATES FROM WHICH ENTERED COLLEGE. 



(1) New Hampshire 1 

(2) Connecticut 1 

(3) New York 11 

(4) New Jersey 16 

(5) Pennsylvania , 12 

(6) Delaware 5 

(7) Maryland 9 

(8) Virginia 1 

(9) North Carolina 3 

(10) South Carolina 1 



(11) Georgia 3 

(12) Alabama ■"' 3 

(13) Florida '.■.■ 1 

(14) Mississippi 3 

(15) Louisiana 2 

(16) Arkansas 1 

(17) Texas ".'.';■ 1 

(18) Kentucky 1 

(19) Tennessee 4 

(20) Cahfornia '.'.;.' 1 



TABLE ISTo. VII. 

STATES WHERE KOW RESIDING (oR AT TIME OF DEATh). 



(1) New Hampshire 1 

(2) Massachusetts 1 

(3) New York 9 

(4) New Jersey 18 

(o) Pennsylvania 9 

(6) Delaware 4 

(7) Maryland 9 

(8) North Carolina. 2 

(9) South Carolina 2 

(10) Georgia 2 

(11) Alabama 3 



(12) Mississippi 4 

(13) Louisiana 2 

(14) Texas l 

(16) Arkansas _ 1 

(16) Ohio • 2 

(17) Tennessee 5 

(18) Iowa 

(19) California 

(20) Arizona 

(21) Wyoming 

(22) Germany 



TABLE ISTo. VIII, 

OCCUPATIONS.* 



(1) Agents 1 

(2) Civil Engineers. 2 

(3) Clergymen 17 

(4) Farmers 2 

(5) Lawyers 30 



(6) Manufticturers 6 

(7) Merchants 5 

(8) Planters 1 

(9) Physicians 12 

(10) Unknown 4 



■ This is eitlier the present occupation or intended. 



As to religious statistics, we can only say that of the fifty-four gradu- 
ate members, thirty-four have made a profession of faith in Christ. Of 
these, three professed their faith in their last sickness but joined no parti- 
cular church ; twenty-five are Presbyterians ; five Episcopalians ; one, a 
Methodist, and one, a Unitarian. Of these thirty-four, eighteen were 
church-members when they came to college ; eight became such while in 
college, and eight have become Christians since leaving college. 

Taking into account the whole fifty-four, forty-five attend Presbyterian 
church ; seven, the Episcopal ; one, the Methodist ; and one, the Unitarian. 

The non-graduate statistics on this point are so meagre, as to make any 
classification useless. 



^ollegiaiia. 



The ten years since our graduation Lave been characterized by many 
noticeable changes in the college. (I) To us, possibly the most interesting, 
tinged by sadness withal, are those in the Faculty. We miss the faces of 
some of them whom we dearly loved. 

Scarcely had we graduated when Pkofessoe Hope was taken away by 
death and Dr. Joshua H. McIlvatne, a graduate of the college, called to 
succeed him in his chair. 

Next, Dr. SIoFFAT, our Greek Professor, was called to a Professor- 
ship in the Theological Seminary of Princeton, to be succeeded by Eev. H. 
C. Cameron, our Fresh. Latin Tutor and Soph. Greek Tutor. 

Then in 1865 (October), Pkopessor Giger, our Latin Professor, was 
removed by death. And now his successor, Professor C. A. Aiken, just 
as he had come to be regarded as almost an indispensable instructor, has 
resigned to accept the Presidency of Union College. 

Our old President too, Dr, John Maclean, semj^er nh'qiie Jwnorattis, 
from the pressure of years lias gone into a dignified retirement,, to be suc- 
ceeded by the distinguished philosopher and divine, Rev. James McCosh. 

Besides these changes in the Faculty, the Trustees have with great 
liberality introduced some new names among the list of Instructors. Thus 
we find Ptev. Dr. Shields as " Professor of the Harmony of Science and 
Ptevealed Eeligion " ; Mr. S. G. Peabody, as " Associate Professor of 
Elocution " ; Mr. A. Edmond Veyer,* " Teacher of French " ; Mr. Carl 
Langlotz, " Teacher of German " : We find also thi'ee " Lecturers Ex- 
traordinary," viz : Dr. MoEFAT, " Lecturer on Greek Literature " ; John 
S. Hart, LL D., "Lecturer on English Literature" and Rev. Dr. For- 
syth, " Lecturer on History. " Besides these changes and additions, the 
scope of three of the chairs has been enlarged. The Professor of Belles 
Lettres is temporarily also the " Professor of the English Language and 
Literature"; the Professor of Latin is also temporarily the " Professor of 
the Science of Language " and the Professor of Chemistry also the " Pro- 
fessor of Natural History.'' 

Professor Alexander moreover, is now charged with the " Natural 
Philosophy and Astronomy'' department only — that of "Mechanics" 
being transferred to Professor Duffield. So also, " Political Science " 
has been transferred to Dr. Atwater's care, thus releasing the '■ Professor 
of Belles Lettres and English " from that branch of instruction. New 
courses of Lectures have also been introduced by the Trustees, viz : On 
the " History of Philosophy " by the President and on the " History of 
Constitutional and Public Law " by Professor Shields. The Trustees at 

* Just Deceased. 



COLLEGIANA, 127 

their last meeting adopted measures to secure an endowment for a " Pro- 
fessorship of Modern Languages." 

These are surely wonderful changes to occur in a Faculty -within ten 
years. 

II. But as noticeable a change has been made in the " Course of Instruc- 
tion." Many important modifications have been made since our day and 
more particularly since Dr. McCosh assumed the Presidency. As Fresh- 
men and Sophomores ive used to be instructed by Tutors. Professor Giger 
in Sophomore Latin was the only exception. Now the Freshmen are to be 
instructed by the Professors of Greek and Latin, to the extentof one exercise 
each per week. The Sophomores are to have one weekly exercise in Na- 
tural History and one in Modern Languages (French or German), 

The most valuable change introduced is in the system of Elective 
Studies adopted for the Juniors and Seniors. 

These two classes are to have an opportunity of selectiDg to a certain ex- 
tent, the studies which they will pursue. The choice of elective studies is to 
be made at the outset of the college year and for the entire year and then 
equally obligatory with the required studies. 

Thus, each member of the Junior class will be expected to pursue as 
required studies, Mechanics, Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, Logic, 
Psychology and Metaphysics ; Physical Geography and Geology ; Pthetoric 
and English Language and llelations of Science and Religion. 

Bach member must also pursue the studies prescribed in %o of the 
four following Departments, as he may elect : 

Higher Mathematics ; Greek, Latin, and Modern Languages, to each of 
which an equal amount of time is to be given. 

In the Senior class, the required studies will be, Chemistry, Natural 
Philosophy and Astronomy, Moral Philosophy, Political Economy, English 
and the Relations of Science and Religion. 

Then, the Seniors are to make a selection to the extent of sis hours 
per week from the following studies, viz. : Natural Philosoj)hy and Astro- 
nomy, Organic and Applied Chemistry, History of Philosophy, Modern 
History, Special course on Political Science, Greek and Greek Literature, 
Latin and the Science of Language, and Two Modern Languages. 

A different distribution of the terms has been made. 

In our time we had two, there are now iliree terms. 

(L) The Fall term, commencing on the first Wednesday in Se^demler 
and ending on the Tuesday preceding December 23d. 

(2.) The Sjning term, commencing after an interval of three weeks from 
the end of the Fall term and continuing thirteen weeks, 

(3.) The Summer term, commencing two weeks thereafter and ending 
with commencement (nine weeks). 

The Senior class are to continue their studies through all three terms 
and have their " Class-day " during commencement week. 

The old mailio A oi Bible recitations on tlie Sahbathhtisheen abolished. 
Instead of this, a meeting for Religious Instruction is held every Sabbath 
from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., at which all students are expected to at^tend. The 
service is conducted in the chapel by the President, who in LS6S-'9 deliv- 
ered a course of Lectures on the Life of Christ, and during lSG9-'70 is to 
pursue a similar course on the Book of the Acts. 

Each class meets the President once during the week for a recitation 
on the Bible and the Lectures. 



128 LLEGIANA. 

The examinationg are in future to be almost exclusively what we knew 
as " written " examinations. 

It will be interesting to know that the hour for morning prayers has 
been changed to 8:^ a.m. This change has been hailed by the students 
with delight. 

The Library also, which used to be opened to us on Mondays only, is now 
accessible to the students every secular day but Saturday for consultation 
and other purposes. 

III. Great changes are now in progress (some of them nearly effected) 
in the college buildings and grounds. 

A large lot of ground fronting on the old Princeton market, running 
back to the old Refectory and extending along Nassau Street to almost 
half of the block — the site of the " City Hotel " and " Rittenhouse's Sta- 
bles " — has been presented to the college by Mr. J. C; Green, of New 
York, on which a very large and ornamental structure for lecture and 
recitation rooms is in process of erection, put up at the expense of the 
same gentleman and to be known as " Dickinson Hall. " It will be on a 
line with " North College." The street which separated this ground from 
Dr. Atwater's house, is to be removed, Dr. Atwater's house itself taken 
away and the whole ground thrown into the college campus, presenting a 
very handsome and extensive front on the main street. 

Then a large Dormitory to be called " Reunion Hall " (as a memorial of 
Presbyterian Reunion) is to be soon erected on the line of Clio and Whig 
Hall, somewhere near where Dr. Moffat used to live. The shanty known 
as the " Old Refectory " has been already removed, the fences taken away 
and the ground thrown into the campus. 

On the other side of the college grounds, two large and beautiful 
buildings are almost completed — the " Gymnasium " costing $30,000, 
(the gift of Messrs. Bonner and Marquand, of New York) and the " Ob- 
servatory " (the gift of General Halsted, of Newark) costing some $60,000. 

These two buildings are on a line with East and West Colleges, the 
Gymnasium being near West College and the Observatory still farther 
west. 

Among the changes, we may note here one thing which will revive a 
host of recollections. The old Depot is no more and the old " hacks " 
have gone to their own place. The straightening of the railroad track 
between Trenton and New Brunswick took the Princeton station off three 
miles from the town, and made necessary the construction of a branch 
road to the village, operated by a " dummy " engine. The town depot is 
near the old " ball-alley," and a street now runs therefrom to the main 
street, coming out nearly opposite the Princeton Bank. The " Observa- 
tory " is situated but a short distance from the Depot — the street already 
mentioned running directly by it. It is the first object that attracts the 
attention of a visitor, stepping from the cars, and is a very impressive 
structure. 

It will readily be seen, therefore, how one who graduated only ten 
years ago, could easily become bewildered at first on revisiting Princeton. 

The ex-President is living quietly in a house on Canal street, pre- 
sented to him by his personal friends, and appears to enjoy his usual 
health. It is understood that he is busily engaged in preparing a history 
of the College, for which work no living man is so competent. Its publi- 
cation will be awaited with lively interest by every son of Nassau. 



COLLEGIANA.. 129 

As to the present generation of students, it will interest us all to know 
that if any change is observable, it is for the better. They are devoting 
more time than was formerly given, to physical development and social 
culture. 

We read with delight in the <' Lit." that " considerable interest has 
been manifested in base-ball." Seven match-games between the classes 
are reported in detail. Croquet is mentioned also as attracting a great 
share of attention — no less than eight sets being distributed over the 
campus. They are looking forward with pleasure to the time when the 
gymnasium will be ready for use. No less than two " singing clubs " are 
referred to, and among the list of books noticed in the " Lit." is The 
Carmina Princetonia, published by Stelle & Smith of Princeton, price $1.25. 
We are told that " the campus resounds with pleasant songs each evening." 
We had a taste of the musical culture already attained in the serenade 
given us during our Decennial meeting, already referred to in its proper 
place. 

A spirit of enterprise is also shown in the conduct of the JVassmi Lite' 
rary Magazine. It is now a Quarterly. The number for June consists of 
seventy-six pages of good reading matter — the Editor's Table being full of 
interest. Attached to the Magazine, and bound up with it, is what is called 
The Nassau Advertiser, of fifteen pages, filled with advertisements which 
we doubt not in great measure cover the expense of the entire ^lagazine. 
It is certainly creditable to the wisdom of its projectors. 

The Seniors now publish, on Class-day, a beautiful pamphlet, giving a 
full account of every thing connected with the Institution, or concerning 
their class, which would interest a visitor at the Class-day exercises. 

There are now some 320 students in the College, and every thing be- 
tokens a successful year. The College is also expecting much good to 
result from the many local Alumni Associations that have been organized 
through the country ; as also, from the efi"ective Class organizations which 
are now the order of the day. 

We hope that this brief review of College matters will convince all 
that Princeton believes in progress. Only give her the means, and it is 
in the heart of its Faculty and Overseers to equal any literary Institution 
in either hemisphere. God bless our Alma Mater, and long live President 
McCosh ! » So say we all." 



^hhxtBBtB of tl)e Class. 



yote. — In the case of deceased classmates, the address given is that of their family. 



I, — Graduate Members. — 64. 

G. C. Beekman Freehold, IST. J. 

A. L. BREAKLETft Trent on, N". J. ; 

I. P. CLAEKt Troy, Tenn. 

J. G. Cleveland Washington, Ga. 

H. L.CoLEt 59 Wall street, New York City. 

S. R. CoLWELLt . . . . Weymouih, N. J. 

Eev. K. a. Condit Oswego, N. Y. 

Dr. W. a. Conover New.-irk, N. J. 

Eev. J. Cornell Laramie, Wyoming Ty. 

Dr. J. CEAiet Carson's Landing, Miss, 

S. D. Davis 619 Walnut St., Phila. 

J. N. DicKSONt 1108 Spruce St., Phila. 

Dr. 0. H. DougalI Milton, Pa. 

Eev. R. EDGARt East Toledo, Ohio. 

J. W. Feierson* \^'- §■ r ^'^'oT"' '^'T t" ^°'^'" ^ 

{ BucKner," Shreveport, La. 

Eev. 0. P. Glover Mount Airv, Md. 

T. Goldthwaite* Mrs. G., Mobile, Ala. 

G. Gray New Oa-tle, Del. 

Eev. F. B. HooGEf WilkesI3arr6, Pa. 

Eev. T. Hodgson! Keyporr, N. J. 

Dr. E. HoldenI Newark, N. J. 

T. HuMPHREYst Salisbury, Md. 

J. D. Janvier New Oa-tle, Del. 

Eev. a. H. Kellogg 29 E. lOtli St., New York City. 

Eev. J. B. Kennedy Trenton, N. J. 

Eev. F. L. Ken YONf Elyria, Ohio. 

G. W. KETCHAMf 289 Pearl St., New York City. 

Eev.W. p. Lloyd* j Mr. J P L., care " Fisk & Hatch," New 

I York. 

De. a. a. Lyon Columbus, Miss. 

T. C. Lyon Columbus, Miss. 

Eev. W. a. McAtee Hagerstown, Md. 

T. J. MoKaig, Jr Baltimore, Md. 

Dr. D. Magie, 48 West 36th St., New York City. 

J. B. Mhoon Memphis, Tenn. 

0. B. MoREist Montclair, N. J. 

W. S. OLiPHANTf Mount Holly, N. J. 

S. H. Pollock* Gov. J. P., 128 South 6th St., Phila. 

Eev. J. W. EsESEt Westminster, Md. 

Eev. J. H. EoBiNSONf* Mrs. J. H. E., Brooklyn, N. Y. 



ADDRESSES. 131 

J. H. EoDNEYt New Castle, Del. 

H. E. RussELLt 27 Wall St., New York City. 

Hon. F, STTJMPf Elkton, Md. 

Rev. C. L. STKEsf 

R. TAKLETONt* Mrs. R. T., Eutaw, Greene Co., Ala. 

0. Van Stckel Flemington, N. J. 

De. E. M. Ward Bloomfield, N. J. 

Dr. R. B. "WATSONt Lock Haven, Pa. 

Rev. Otis B. Webster* Mrs. C. E. W. Morse, Chester^ N. H. 

- G. WEiDMANt ' Lebanon, Pa. 

H. W. Williams Princeton, N. J. 

Dr. S. Woodbridge Bericia, Cal. i' • 

De. W. B. Weight Goshen, K Y. 

J. R. YEEGEEt Jackson, Miss. 

A, Zabriskie* Chancellor Z., Jersey City, F. J. 

II. — Non-Geaduatb Members. — 26. 

Jos. A. Alexander 448 Broadway, New York City. 

F. Anderson* Dr. W. W. A ., Stateburg, S. C. 

Dr. Anson S. AEOHERt Sprincfield, Mass. 

De. J. J. Black New Cas le, Del. 

J. H. Brady Mount Carniel, S. C. 

Fenton B. Clabaugh Baltimore, Md. 

Chas. E. Cossitt* George C. C. La Grange, Tenn. • 

Geo. a. Courts* Hon. D. W. C, Reidsville, N. 0. 

Chas. E. GeeenI..- Trenton, N. J. 

P. Latham Memphis, Tenn. 

W. D. LumpkinI Memphis, Tenn. 

J. B. Mills, Jr.* J. B. M., Peekskill, N. Y. 

N. C. Mitchell 221 Vine St., Pl.ila. 

A. Duncan Mooee James M., Pittstun, N. C. 

D. W. Mooee Van Buren, Ark. 

H. K. W. Muse* Jas. H. M., 6 Camp St., N. O., La. 

Cyrus P. Nelson Berlin, Md. 

Cadwell W. Raines 

Geo. T. Rlbble Belvidere, N. J. 

M. S. Robertson* M. L Stone, Aqua«co, Md. 

Henry R. Stores* Geo. S. S., Wetumpka, Ala. 

Feed'o ToMKiNst Stony Point, N. Y. 

De. Hoeace M. WhiteI- 1614 Chestnut St., Phila, 

Benj'n H. Woolley Germany. 

E. Hudson WoeeallI Keokuk, Ta. 

Rev. W. p. ZabeiskieJ Farmer Village, N. Y. 

ALFRED H. KELLOGG, 

.Class Secretary, 

• 29 East 10th Street, New Torlc City 
Nov., 1869. 

♦Deceased. t Married 4 Albout removui'' 



